GARDEN DESIGN 57 



possible shoes is half so wicked as the 

 wilful distortion of the divinely beautiful 

 forms of trees. The cost' of this hideous 

 distortion alone is one reason against it, 

 as one may soon find out in places where 

 miles of trees cut into wall -like shape 

 have to be clipped, as at Versailles and 

 Schonbrunn ! This clipping is a mere 

 survival of the day when gardens had 

 very few trees, and it was necessary to 

 clip the few they had to fit certain 

 situations to conform to the architect's 

 notion of " garden design." This is not 

 design at all from any landscape point of 

 view; and though the elements which 

 go to form beautiful landscape, whether 

 home landscape or the often higher 

 landscape beauty of the open country, 

 are often subtle, and though they are 

 infinitely varied, they are none the less 

 real. The fact that men when we had 

 few trees clipped them into walls and 

 grotesque shapes to make them serve 



