DOI Heft:
No. 92 (November, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Prior, Edward S.: Garden-making, [2]: the conditions of practice$nElektronische Ressource
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0104
Garden-Making
square, an oblong, or a circular garden
without insisting on exact regularity ot
shape. Moreover, these three distinctions
represent three varieties of expression out
of which all gardens, however irregular,
have to get their effects. More often too
than can at first be suspected, quite
eccentric boundaries can be dexterously
manipulated, so as to give to the eye a
space capable of distinctly showing one
of the above three varieties of expression.
Indeed, the first art of the garden-maker
comes usually in the form of a discovery
of the main idea for which his plot is best garden in west Dorset now destroyed
adapted.
To begin, then, with the square, as the ideal and pools; with green yew chambers and ash
garden-chamber. Its charm lies in the radiant pavilions; with orchard glades and nut alleys;
content of its "lay out"; "much gratified," as an with chequers of flower-beds and borders of rose
old writer has it, " by the due proportion of four trellis ; with summer-house, fountain and sundial,
even quarters." The external (or bounding) walk The material for such variety is endless, only it
and the central crossing path of an exact square should be ordered in such a manner as not to
give this ordered effect, as it were in sane and vitiate the master unity of the square conception,
decent manner, making the most of the area. But In small areas the square can be managed to
there need be no rigid adherence to the four- give the practical advantages of economy and good
square formality. As at Bridgefoot and in many shelter. One of the accompanying plans shows an
of the gardens illustrated, the square is indicated, area of 25 yards laid out as a flower garden with a
but never exactly realised. And besides irregulari- lawn and a—well, what might be a home of colour
ties of external projection there may be in the and delight for every month of the year. Its space
"quarters" themselves plenty of fancy, and the should be open to the sun—trees and large shrubs
varied massing of form and colour with mounds being kept outside its enclosure—so that rampant
garden at bridgefoot
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square, an oblong, or a circular garden
without insisting on exact regularity ot
shape. Moreover, these three distinctions
represent three varieties of expression out
of which all gardens, however irregular,
have to get their effects. More often too
than can at first be suspected, quite
eccentric boundaries can be dexterously
manipulated, so as to give to the eye a
space capable of distinctly showing one
of the above three varieties of expression.
Indeed, the first art of the garden-maker
comes usually in the form of a discovery
of the main idea for which his plot is best garden in west Dorset now destroyed
adapted.
To begin, then, with the square, as the ideal and pools; with green yew chambers and ash
garden-chamber. Its charm lies in the radiant pavilions; with orchard glades and nut alleys;
content of its "lay out"; "much gratified," as an with chequers of flower-beds and borders of rose
old writer has it, " by the due proportion of four trellis ; with summer-house, fountain and sundial,
even quarters." The external (or bounding) walk The material for such variety is endless, only it
and the central crossing path of an exact square should be ordered in such a manner as not to
give this ordered effect, as it were in sane and vitiate the master unity of the square conception,
decent manner, making the most of the area. But In small areas the square can be managed to
there need be no rigid adherence to the four- give the practical advantages of economy and good
square formality. As at Bridgefoot and in many shelter. One of the accompanying plans shows an
of the gardens illustrated, the square is indicated, area of 25 yards laid out as a flower garden with a
but never exactly realised. And besides irregulari- lawn and a—well, what might be a home of colour
ties of external projection there may be in the and delight for every month of the year. Its space
"quarters" themselves plenty of fancy, and the should be open to the sun—trees and large shrubs
varied massing of form and colour with mounds being kept outside its enclosure—so that rampant
garden at bridgefoot
by g. f. bodley and e. s. prior
87