Villa Gardens 



"rectilinear" treatment is the only one which 

 will enable us to harmonise the garden with the 

 general squareness of its environment. Its 

 boundaries are most often but the four sides of 

 a rectangle. The house which stands within it 

 is square at all its angles, and squarely placed 

 within the garden boundaries. 



Thus to plan the garden beds and walks in 

 sinuous lines is but to emphasize the square- 

 ness of its limits. 



Let us then rather assimilate the plan of 

 the garden to the inevitable shape of its 

 boundaries, and rely for the general artistic 

 effect on the flowers, plants and trees, for which 

 it is to be the home, so disposing them as to 

 secure that variety of form which is their great 

 charm equally with the beauty of their colours. 



It is by the application of this principle that 

 I have designed the several typical examples, 

 which I hope will constitute the most useful 

 feature of this book, after having put them 

 into practice in more than one garden, with 

 results which have invariably delighted their 

 owners. 



