International studio (35.1908)

Architectural Gardening


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a lost art, and although here and there
efforts were made to revive and place it
in its old position, the natural course
of events, the Napoleonic wars, the
Romantic movements, the writings of
Scott, were all too powerful and all
tended to one end. The final glimmer
of life in the art was extinguished by that
ridiculous movement which came about
in the first half of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and under the name of the “ Gothic
revival” brought such woeful results
in its train. The art of architecture
which, in the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries gave us so

reasonableness and
order which are essen-
tial to all good archi-
tecture.
As time went on
and the Renaissance
grew stronger and
purer under the master
hands of Inigo Jones
and Wren, these quali-
ties stood out clearer
and better defined
both in the buildings
and in the gardens.
In the early part of the
eighteenth century,
soon after the death of
Wren, when his refin-
ing influence was re-
moved, garden work as
well as building began
to lose these dis-
tinguishing qualities
and took upon it by
degrees a hardness
and superficiality
which were the early
marks of its ultimate
decadence. When
gardening once got
into the grasp of the
distinguished dilettante
and became, witharchi-
tecture, the fashion-
able cult of the day,
it practically became
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PERGOLA AT CROWBOROUGH, DESIGNED FOR MARY, DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND, BY
C. E. MALI.OWS, F.R.I.B.A. FROM A PEN DRAWING BY F. L. B. GRIGGS