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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19489#0009
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
from every part of the world, in which no doubt
the monkey puzzler would occupy the proud
position due to its conspicuous ugliness.
The paragraph in which these emphatic asser-
tions occur is directed against the contention ad-
vanced in the Formal Garden that tropical plants
with their large leaves and brilliant foliage are
"out of scale and character" in the midst of quiet
English foliage; one would have thought this
obvious, though to Mr. Robinson, in default of
an answer, it appears " childish." Not being an
artist, Mr. Robinson does not understand the
artistic importance of mass on the one hand, and
of scale on the other. Both of these elements
have to be carefully considered in a garden, as
I have endeavoured to point out (Formal Garden,
p. 15) in a passage which Mr. Robinson with
his usual urbanity characterises as " full of non-
sense " ; and I may refer to this passage for a
fuller discussion of the question. The point to
which I would here call the reader's attention is
this initial view of a garden. Mr. Robinson
may prefer that his garden should be a Botanical
Garden, but other people may be allowed to
think that a pleasure garden is a garden for
pleasure—pleasure of the eye, pleasure of exercise,
a place for that innocent delight on which Law-
son dwells so lovingly in his New Orchard.
from every part of the world, in which no doubt
the monkey puzzler would occupy the proud
position due to its conspicuous ugliness.
The paragraph in which these emphatic asser-
tions occur is directed against the contention ad-
vanced in the Formal Garden that tropical plants
with their large leaves and brilliant foliage are
"out of scale and character" in the midst of quiet
English foliage; one would have thought this
obvious, though to Mr. Robinson, in default of
an answer, it appears " childish." Not being an
artist, Mr. Robinson does not understand the
artistic importance of mass on the one hand, and
of scale on the other. Both of these elements
have to be carefully considered in a garden, as
I have endeavoured to point out (Formal Garden,
p. 15) in a passage which Mr. Robinson with
his usual urbanity characterises as " full of non-
sense " ; and I may refer to this passage for a
fuller discussion of the question. The point to
which I would here call the reader's attention is
this initial view of a garden. Mr. Robinson
may prefer that his garden should be a Botanical
Garden, but other people may be allowed to
think that a pleasure garden is a garden for
pleasure—pleasure of the eye, pleasure of exercise,
a place for that innocent delight on which Law-
son dwells so lovingly in his New Orchard.