[Gutenberg 37607] • Garden Design and Architects' Gardens / Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic
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- Authors
- Robinson, W.
- Tags
- blomfield , gardening , reginald theodore , john d. (john dando) , 1856-1942. formal garden in england , sedding , art , sir , landscape gardening , 1838-1891. garden-craft old and new
- Date
- 2011-10-09T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.79 MB
- Lang
- en
[...] The custom of planting avenues and cutting straight lines through the woods surrounding the house to radiate in all directions was a departure from that strictly logical system which separated the garden from the park, and left the latter to take care of itself, a system which frankly subordinated Nature to art within the garden wall, but in return gave Nature an absolutely free hand outside it. (The Formal Garden.) Nature an "absolutely free hand"! Imagine a great park or any part of an estate being left to Nature with an "absolutely free hand"! If it were, in a generation there would be very little to see but the edge of the wood. Callous to the beauty of English parks, he does not know that they are the object of much care, and he abuses all those who ever formed them, Brown, Repton, and the rest.[...].