Excerpt from The Formal Garden in England Both sides. The first point to be cleared up was the confusion between horticulture and de sign, and, havmg handed over horticulture to the gardener, the question of design came fairly within the province of the architect. In the attempt, however, to dislodge a tradition of bad taste, a somewhat polemical treatment was meces sary. The occasion for this no longer exists, and I have therefore omitted the preface to the second edition. Indeed the danger at this moment is rather that ...
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Excerpt from The Formal Garden in England Both sides. The first point to be cleared up was the confusion between horticulture and de sign, and, havmg handed over horticulture to the gardener, the question of design came fairly within the province of the architect. In the attempt, however, to dislodge a tradition of bad taste, a somewhat polemical treatment was meces sary. The occasion for this no longer exists, and I have therefore omitted the preface to the second edition. Indeed the danger at this moment is rather that one trick of design should be substituted for another, and that in our admiration for certain beautiful old gardens we should attempt to reproduce them blindly under impossible colldltns. There are, for instance, sites which make a purely formal garden out of the question; and others in which, even if it were possible, it would not be desirable and it would be as absurd to make the desperate attempt as is that favourite device of the land scape gardener who cannot resist the manufacture of a hummock in order that he may wind his path all round it. For in design we want not only a sense of beauty, but also common sense and the amateur should be on his guard against abstract rules and recipes. What looks well in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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