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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1907 



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The Art and Craft of Garden Making. 

 By Thomas H. Mawson. Third edition, 

 revised and enlarged. New York: Im- 

 ported by Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 

 20+310. Price, $10.00 net. 



That three editions of so large and expen- 

 sive a volume as this should have been called 

 for is the highest possible demonstration of its 

 merits and its utility. Its author has long en- 

 joyed an extensive practise in laying out gar- 

 dens in England, and this book represents the 

 full expression of his wide and varied experi- 

 ence. Concerned, as it is, chiefly with the 

 principles of the garden art and craft, with 

 garden design in its most ornamental aspect, 

 and abounding as it does, almost on every page, 

 with suggestions of artistic and practical value, 

 the fact that it is of English origin, written 

 by an English designer, and intended pri- 

 marily for English guidance and use, is of 

 comparatively slight moment. The basic 

 principles of this beautiful art are beyond the 

 limits of any country or continent, and much 

 of this book — the larger part of it, in fact — 

 is as applicable to America as to England. It 

 has, therefore, for American readers, a value 

 of its own that is distinctly higher than many 

 of the garden books which have come across 

 the sea. 



Mr. Mawson has little sympathy with the 

 landscape designer who begins his work from 

 the very beginning, and modifies and arranges 

 his landscape to meet his preconceived ideas. 

 He lays it down as a fundamental principle 

 that the formal should not be exalted above 

 the natural, and that, generally speaking, nat- 

 ural and existing contours are more pleasing 

 than artificial ones, and should give a lead in 

 all development and ground formation. Ex- 

 ceptions there are to such a rule, as there must 

 be to all good rules in the betterment of na- 

 ture, but the wisdom and soundness of such 

 advice in garden design is beyond question. 



The book covers, and covers very admira- 

 bly, every aspect of garden design and treat- 

 ment. An introductory chapter briefly de- 

 scribes the various styles of garden design in 

 vogue in England and points out their vary- 

 ing adaptability to modern needs. The choice 

 of a site and its treatment is illustrated with 

 detailed surveys. A chapter on fences and 

 gates is filled with brilliant suggestions. Ter- 

 race and flower gardens are discussed at 

 length, both from the standpoint of design and 

 from the plants that may be grown in them. 

 Lawns and garden walks, summer houses, 

 trellis work, garden furniture, water in foun- 

 tains, lakes, streams and ponds, the building 

 and use of conservatories, greenhouses, viner- 

 ies and fruit houses, kitchen gardens and orch- 

 ards, the formal arrangement of trees and 

 shrubs in avenues and hedges, the question of 

 planting for landscape effect, ail these and 

 many other practical and artistic questions are 

 discussed at length, suggestions made, actual 

 examples illustrated. Final chapters are de- 

 scriptive of trees, shrubs, climbers, roses, hardy 

 perennials, aquatic plants and ferns, and the 

 book closes with a number of examples of 

 garden design. There is an abundance of 

 illustration, both from photographs and from 

 drawings, with many sketches of details and 

 numerous plans. It is a book that merits the 

 warmest commendation, and is one the read- 

 ing of which will aid many a garden designer 

 (^Continued on page ix) 



