GARDEN DESIGN 63 



valley and say there are no lines in 

 them, inasmuch as one of the most 

 visible and delightful things in all such 

 cases is the beauty of those lines ? This 

 is the key of the whole question of 

 landscape gardening. ^There is no good 

 landscape gardening possible without a 

 feeling for the natural gradation and 

 forms of the earth. 



It can be seen in little things^, like 

 the slope of a field as well as in the 

 slope of a mountain, and it is the neglect 

 of this which leaves us so little to boast 

 of in landscape work. In a country 

 slightly diversified it is, of course, more 

 important than in a perfectly flat one, 

 but in all diversified ground no good 

 landscape work can be done without 

 regarding the natural gradation of the 

 earth, which will often tell us what to 

 do. It is blindness to this principle 

 which makes so many people cut their 

 roads and walks crudely through banks. 



