DOI Heft:
No. 53 (August, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Joass, J. J.: On gardening: with descriptions of some formal gardens in Scotland
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0190
Formal Gardens in Scotland
sidered, and the landscape
school was in its palmy
days.
Also it cannot be doubted
that the great gardens of the
world—the villa gardens of
Italy, the models of all the
rest—were designed by the
architect of the building.
Vignola, Sangallo, Raphael,
Palladio, and many more, all
excelled in this branch of
design. Le Notre laid out
the great gardens of Ver-
sailles and the Tuileries, and
our own Inigo Jones and
Wren were often consulted
about the disposal of the
grounds of an estate. Wren's
design for the garden and
park at Hampton Court for
William III., of which the
great avenue and Diana
pond at Bushey Park was
the first instalment, is still
extant, and shows a great
scheme in which William
meant to emulate the mag-
nificence of Versailles.
It may be, however, that
in these days of varied in-
terest, and so many different
schools and shades of
thought, there will always
remain those who prefer the
wildness of untamed nature,
or at least an imitation of it,
at Barncluith, in his essay in the Quarterly Review, and those who incline to a certain degree of
and the description of others in his novels, show formality and restraint, where art and nature may
that he at least had a true appreciation of the in the garden meet half way, and where in his
architectural capability of the garden even at that " pleasaunce" a man may feel that he has not
time. quitted the retirement of his dwelling though in
Without entering into the discussion which has the open air and among the birds and flowers,
been waged more or less warmly on the relative As the landscapist sets up no rule or model for
functions of the architect and the horticultural his guidance, but only nature, he has his material
artist in regard to garden design, it may be pointed and inspiration ever before him. With the for-
out that most of, and perhaps all, the greatest malist it is different. He follows a tradition, and
architects since the Renaissance have supposed careful study of what has already been done is
themselves capable of designing gardens* Sir John necessary for success in his manner. Unfortu-
Vanbrugh certainly declined the responsibility in the nately in England almost every vestige of what
case of Blenheim, but he leaned neither to the one has been done has disappeared, and only by dili-
side nor the other, and suggested that a landscape- gent study of old drawings and laborious hunting
painter should be consulted. In his time, however, up of the existing examples can they be studied,
the architectural side of gardening was not con- Particulars of some of the formal gardens still
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FORMAL GARDEN AT BARNCLUITH
sidered, and the landscape
school was in its palmy
days.
Also it cannot be doubted
that the great gardens of the
world—the villa gardens of
Italy, the models of all the
rest—were designed by the
architect of the building.
Vignola, Sangallo, Raphael,
Palladio, and many more, all
excelled in this branch of
design. Le Notre laid out
the great gardens of Ver-
sailles and the Tuileries, and
our own Inigo Jones and
Wren were often consulted
about the disposal of the
grounds of an estate. Wren's
design for the garden and
park at Hampton Court for
William III., of which the
great avenue and Diana
pond at Bushey Park was
the first instalment, is still
extant, and shows a great
scheme in which William
meant to emulate the mag-
nificence of Versailles.
It may be, however, that
in these days of varied in-
terest, and so many different
schools and shades of
thought, there will always
remain those who prefer the
wildness of untamed nature,
or at least an imitation of it,
at Barncluith, in his essay in the Quarterly Review, and those who incline to a certain degree of
and the description of others in his novels, show formality and restraint, where art and nature may
that he at least had a true appreciation of the in the garden meet half way, and where in his
architectural capability of the garden even at that " pleasaunce" a man may feel that he has not
time. quitted the retirement of his dwelling though in
Without entering into the discussion which has the open air and among the birds and flowers,
been waged more or less warmly on the relative As the landscapist sets up no rule or model for
functions of the architect and the horticultural his guidance, but only nature, he has his material
artist in regard to garden design, it may be pointed and inspiration ever before him. With the for-
out that most of, and perhaps all, the greatest malist it is different. He follows a tradition, and
architects since the Renaissance have supposed careful study of what has already been done is
themselves capable of designing gardens* Sir John necessary for success in his manner. Unfortu-
Vanbrugh certainly declined the responsibility in the nately in England almost every vestige of what
case of Blenheim, but he leaned neither to the one has been done has disappeared, and only by dili-
side nor the other, and suggested that a landscape- gent study of old drawings and laborious hunting
painter should be consulted. In his time, however, up of the existing examples can they be studied,
the architectural side of gardening was not con- Particulars of some of the formal gardens still
167
FORMAL GARDEN AT BARNCLUITH