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Garden Design and Architects' Gardens, by W. Robinson, F.L.S

Garden Design and Architects' Gardens, by W. Robinson, F.L.S

by W. Robinson

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Author
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935
Title
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
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Therese Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
Subject
Sedding, John D. (John Dando), 1838-1891. Garden-craft old and new
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37607
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37607
Release Date
October 3, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.GARDEN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTS' GARDENS
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.GARDEN DESIGN [1]
  6. 6.Natural and False Lines
  7. 7." Uncultivated Nature "
  8. 8.The True Landscape
  9. 9.Buildings in Relation to the Garden
  10. 10.Time and Gardens
  11. 11.True Use of a Garden
  12. 12.Formal Gardening
  13. 13."Nature" and what we mean by it
  14. 14."All our Paths" are Crooked!
  15. 15." The Only Garden Possible! "
  16. 16." No Design in Landscape "
  17. 17.No Grass in Landscape Gardening!
  18. 18."Improving" Battersea Park!
  19. 19.Nature and Clipped Yews
  20. 20.No Line in Nature!
  21. 21." Vegetable Sculpture " [2] — FOOTNOTES: — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

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