GARDENS AND ARCHITECTURE l6l 



either side of these years but with few virtues 

 between them. 



However, we are now in a settled stage when 

 gardens and architecture not only are on speak- 

 ing terms with one another but indulge in what 

 undoubtedly is to be a lasting and construc- 

 tive intimacy. Now and then the attention of 

 garden-makers seems focussed upon some one 

 phase of garden architecture — terrace, the per- 

 gola or the arbor. Each in its turn becomes 

 the center of interest. However, this does not 

 mean that there is any faddism about it. 

 Though the pergola became the fashion it has 

 never ceased to be in fashion. And so it is 

 with all architectural garden features of ex- 

 cellence. 



Good gardens, so far as architectural fea- 

 tures are concerned — whether they be balus- 

 trades or bird-houses — should dispense with 

 the bizarre. Artistic, simple lines, freely in- 

 spired but dictated by the canons of good 

 taste, should disclose the design of any archi- 

 tectural features that we may incorporate with 

 our gardens. In the matter of rustic garden 

 features the sins of commission have, in the 

 past, become, perhaps, the most numerous. 



