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International studio — 19.1903

DOI Heft:
No. 74 (April 903)
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Maule, Hugh P. G.: Some notes on a suburban house and garden
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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26227#0139

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gardens, and introduced so much that was abso-
lutely meaningiess and false.
Now that this aberration is seen in its true
perspective, the pendulum is at length swinging
back, and the banalities of the nature and land-
scape schooi are giving place to a truer apprecia-
tion of the fact that the design and construction of
a garden is indeed art, and that of a very distinct
and especial kind; but it must not be forgotten
that the conditions of modern life have changed
and are radically different from those which brought
about the development of old gardens. A giimpse
beneath the mere surface of things will, however,
convince us that even if the old requirements are
no longer present, there are others quite as im-
portant, which, if treated upon the broad lines of
utility, or looked at from the more scientihc point
of view of education, both ethical and artistic, will
supply all the data required for the complete
development and unihcation of a modern house
and garden as one indivisible unit, forming the
centre from which our lives should gradually
expand.
In small gardens, such as the one under con-
sideration, we are not hampered by more than the

desire to make the best use of limited ground-
space, to provide efhcient shelter, and to make
the garden as secluded as possible; not forgetting
also the modern importance of the garden as the
playground, and what should be almost the chief
educational inHuence of young minds :—
'' And is there any moral shut
Withln the bosom of the rose?
But any man that waiks the mead,
In bud or blade, or bioom, may iind,
According as his humours iead,
A meaning suited to his mind."
The garden is, in fact, the extension of all that
belongs to the house, but carried one step further,
and the same underlying principles hold good. It
is only the materials which are different, and which,
therefore, need blending and treating with a true
knowledge of their properties and a real insight
into the modern limitations which govern their
being.
Mr. MttcheH's garden may be said to be a
garden in compartments, each part having its
defrnite use and effect. The whole has been
conceived in the right spirit, meeting frankly his
particular needs, and making just that perfect


"THE ORCHARD," HARROW : THB DRAWtNG-ROOM FIRE-PLACE

ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT
 
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