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I. OF GARDENS AND GARDEN DESIGNERS 1

Nature’s Gardens—Qualifications necessary for the Designer—“Garden
Architects”—Formal Gardens, Old and Modern—“Capability
Brown”—Repton—Artificial and Natural Design—Uselessness of Stock
Plans and Patterns.

II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 12

Comfort and Convenience the Primary Essentials—Undue Complexity
to be avoided—Variety Desirable—Garden Paths—Eccentricity
Condemned—Attempting too much—Colour and Contrast.

III. THE SELECTION OF A SITE 21

Accessibility—Approach—Soils—Aspect—Altitude—Shelter—
Surroundings—Outlines of Property—Existing Timber to be retained.

IV. WALKS AND LAWNS 30

Carriage Drives to be Direct—Walks for Different Parts of the
Garden—Serpentine Paths—Edging—Value of Lawns—Breadth and Space
conveyed.

V. FORMAL AND LANDSCAPE PLANTING 37

Avenues often Pretentious—Objections to Clipped Yew
Hedges—Topiary—Flower Walks—The Maze—Natural Planting—Boundary
Plantations—Specimen Trees—Grouping.

VI. KITCHEN-GARDEN AND ORCHARD 44

Unfounded Prejudice against Kitchen-Gardens—Site—Aspect—Boundaries—
Borders—Good Walks a Necessity—Water-Supply—Fruit Plantations—
The Orchard Beautiful.

VII. THE TREATMENT OF WATER 52

Value of Water in the Garden Scene—Artificial Treatment—Natural
Effects generally Preferred—Running Water—Planting on the
Margin—Banks.

VIII. HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS 60

Importance of Living Plants to Design—Border Plants with Various
Coloured Flowers.

IX. PLANTS FOR ALPINE, AQUATIC, AND BOG GARDENS 69

Alpines, with Blue, Pink, Yellow, and White Flowers—Water
Plants—Suitable Subjects for Marshy Margins—Bog Plants.

X. FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 74

Evergreens Overplanted—Deciduous Trees—List of Varieties.

XI. HARDY CLIMBERS 83

Climbers on Trees—Roses, Clematis, and other Desirable Subjects.

INDEX 89

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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LAWN AND SHADE _Frontispiece_

TERRACE CLIMBERS 16

A PAVED WALK 32

SUNDIAL IN GARDEN WALK 40

STREAM AND WOODLAND 54

HERBACEOUS GROUPING 64

A LILY TANK 70

A GARDEN HOUSE 76

_Photographs by F. Mason Good._

THE BOOK OF GARDEN DESIGN