Category: Art
Some subjects require to be delineated according to their own taste. Whatever the author's notions about it at starting, the subject somehow slips out of his grasp and dictates its own method of treatment and style. The subject of gardening answers to this description: you can...
Why were the old-fashioned gardens destroyed? Firstly, because the traditional garden of the early part of the eighteenth century, when the reaction set in, represented a style...
7. CHAPTER VII."I cannot think Nature is so spent and decayed that she can bring forth nothing worth her former years. She is always the same, like herself; and when she collects her strength...
3. CHAPTER III.In the last chapter I observed that in dealing with our second point--the ornamental treatment that is fit for a garden--we should be brought into contact with the good and bad...
4. CHAPTER IV.The English garden, as I have just tried to sketch it, was not born yesterday, the bombastic child of a landscape-gardener's recipe. It epitomises a nation's instincts in garden...
1. CHAPTER I.Some subjects require to be delineated according to their own taste. Whatever the author's notions about it at starting, the subject somehow slips out of his grasp and dictates...
6. CHAPTER VI.[Footnote 37: These notes make no pretence either at originality or completeness. They represent gleanings from various sources, combined with personal observations on garden-cr...
8. CHAPTER VIII.We have discussed the theory of a garden; we have analysed the motives which prompt its making, the various treatments of which it is susceptible; we have made a kind of invento...
9. CHAPTER IX.What shall we say, then, to the two conflicting views of garden-craft referred to in my last chapter, wherein I take the modern position, namely, that the love of Art in a garde...
2. CHAPTER II.In dealing with our second point--the ornamental treatment that is fit and right for a garden--we are naturally brought into contact with the good and bad points of both the old...