5. 



Appropriate lo a small city lot, if secluded, because 

 it is a miniature form of gardening 



4. Appropriate to the Pacific coast because of its con- 

 nection with Japan (Golden Gate ParK, San Francisco) 



THREE JAPANESE GARDENS THAT HAVE SOME JUSTIFICATION IN FITNESS 



Appropriate for Americans who have lived long in 

 Japan. The late Admiral Barllett's tea garden 



man may not advertise — save in one way 

 viz, by writing, and the quickest way to 

 attract attention is to start a controversy. 

 The old fellows don't write — their time is 

 too valuable. It is only the young fel- 

 lows that need business who need to ad- 

 vertise. 



I don't say that William Robinson is 

 insincere. What he is fighting against is 

 ■extravagance and display. What Blomfield 

 and Thomas are fighting for is the preser- 

 vation of a lot of charming features near the 

 louse that were swept away by the mistaken 

 zeal of the first landscape gardeners: "fore- 

 courts, house-courts, base-courts, terraces, 

 bowling greens, and walled gardens com- 

 posed of 'knots,' parterres, pleaching, 

 arbors, 'palisades' and hedges and peacocks 

 parading the ivied walls."* Both sides 

 want seclusion, repose, mingled light and 

 shade, blending colors, sweet odors, the 



* This sentence and the next are slightly altered from 

 a passage in "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect" — a 

 lovable book which is perhaps the most important Ameri- 

 can work on landscape design. 



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sound of running water, butterflies and birds 

 and above all perfect fitness. 



Three formal gardens that fit are shown 

 at the head of this article. The first one is 

 appropriate because the steep hillside near 

 this great house had to be preserved in some 

 way and terraces are natural to hill country. 

 The dwarf conifers in the foreground are 

 appropriate because the house is occupied 

 in the winter and it is desirable that the 

 surroundings of a house should be attractive 

 every day of the year. False originality 

 creates terraces at extravagant expense in 

 flat lands, where the flatness could be reliever 1 

 in better ways. 



The second picture illustrates the principle 

 that the greater the house the greater the 

 need for formal gardening and also that a 

 formal garden should be organically connect- 

 ed with the house. The connection is here 

 indicated by the lions and by the path in 

 the foreground. The whole garden is sunken 

 so that it does not obtrude itself when one is 

 contemplating the majestic view in the dis- 

 tance. The wall of earth in the middle dis- 



tance shows where home grounds end and 

 fields begin. False originality would fill 

 this garden with marble seats and Italian 

 well curbs, and either raise it so that passers- 

 by might see or in a spirit of snobbishness 

 build a high stone wall around the whole. 



In the third picture we have an apparent 

 exception, for the peerless Larz Anderson 

 garden at Brookline is quite shut off 

 by tree planting, because the house and 

 garden represent two different styles of archi- 

 tecture. Nevertheless they are near to- 

 gether, organically connected by bowling 

 alley and passageways. False originality 

 would say: " I have money enough to create 

 an environment. I can be a law unto 

 myself." The true originality of the Ander- 

 son garden lies in the way in which it blends 

 into nature instead of proudly vaunting its 

 superiority to it. For as you approach the 

 garden the eye is carried by easy transition 

 from lawn to shrubbery and encircling trees, 

 amid which one gets enticing glimpses of the 

 pergola within. And as you stand at the 

 entrance to the garden, on a commanding 



Appropriate to smallest bacK yards of largest cities. 

 Outdoor winter playground for children 



!. Appropriate wall garden for cities built on rolling 

 lands. Shrubs and vines planted above the wall 



9. Appropriate to a rose lover and to the plant itself. 

 An example of a collector's garden 



THREE CITY GARDENS THAT ARE ADAPTED TO THEIR. ENVIRONMENT OR TO THE OWNER'S PERSONALITY 



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