Garden Design
By W. Robinson
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First published in 1892."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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Garden Design - W. Robinson
GARDEN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTS' GARDENS BY W. ROBINSON, F.L.S.
Published by Seltzer Books
established in 1974
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London:
John Murray, Albemarle Street
1892
To Sir Philip Currie, K.C.B.
PREFACE
Garden Design
Natural and False Lines
Uncultivated Nature
The True Landscape
Buildings in Relation to the Garden
Time and Gardens
True Use of a Garden
Formal Gardening
Nature,
and what we mean by it
All Our Paths
are Crooked!
The Only Garden Possible!
No Design in Landscape
No Grass in Landscape Gardening!
Improving
Battersea Park!
Nature and Clipped Yews
No Line in Nature!
Vegetable Sculpture
PREFACE
That we might see, eyes were given us; and a tongue to tell accurately what we had got to see. It is the alpha and omega of all intellect that man has. No poetry, hardly even that of Goethe, is equal to the true image of reality—had one eyes to see that.—T. Carlyle, Letters to Varnhagen Von Ense.
The one English thing that has touched the heart of the world is the English garden. Proof of this we have in such noble gardens as the English park at Munich, the garden of the Emperor of Austria at Laxenberg, the Petit Trianon at Versailles, the parks formed of recent years round Paris, and many lovely gardens in Europe and America. The good sense of English writers and landscape gardeners refused to accept as right or reasonable the architect's garden, a thing set out as bricks and stones are, and the very trees of which were mutilated to meet his views as to design
or rather to prove his not being able to see the simplest elements of design in landscape beauty or natural form. And some way or other they destroyed nearly all signs of it throughout our land.
In every country where gardens are made we see the idea of the English garden gratefully accepted; and though there are as yet no effective means of teaching the true art of landscape gardening, we see many good results in Europe and America. No good means have ever been devised for the teaching of this delightful English art. Here and there a man of keen sympathy with Nature does good work, but often it is carried out by men trained for a very different life, as engineers in the great Paris parks, and in our own country by surveyors and others whose training often wholly unfits them for the study of the elements of beautiful landscape. Thus we do not often see good examples of picturesque garden and park design, while bad work is common. Everywhere—unhappily, even in England, the home of landscape gardening—the too frequent presence of stupid work in landscape gardening offers some excuse for the two reactionary books which have lately appeared—books not worth notice for their own sake, as they contribute nothing to our knowledge of the beautiful art of gardening or garden design. But so many people suppose that artistic matters are