64 GARDEN DESIGN 



y^leaving straight sharp sides — false lines, 

 in fact — when a little care and observa- 

 tion would have avoided this and given 

 a true and beautiful line for a road or 

 walk. 



Once the necessary levels are settled 

 and the garden walks by straight walls 

 about the house are got away from, we 

 soon come to ground which, whether 

 we treat it rightly or not, will at once 

 show whether the work done be land- 

 scape work or not. No plan, it seems 

 to me, is so good as keeping to the 

 natural form of the earth in all lawn, 

 pleasure ground, and plantation work. 

 Roads, paths, fences, plantations, and 

 anything like wood will be all the 

 better if we are guided by natural lines 

 or forms, taking advantage of every 

 difference of level and every little 

 accident of the ground for our dividing 

 lines and other beginnings or endings. 



In the absence of any guidance of 



