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#0112
Garden-Making
OBLONG GARDEN SCALE, TWELVE YARDS TO THE INCH
f The black lines show walls ; v = vegetables ; F = flowers ; s = sheds ; Y = yards.)
to any want of symmetry or balance in the
circle.
The principle of radiation is, however, very
generally applicable, and by use of it the broken
parts of irregular sites are connected together with
the proper expression of order and design, as is
indicated in the plan here shown.
It is to be observed that simplicity and perfect
balance have been illustrated in the plans shown,
in order to give clearness to the broadest principles
which underlie the laying out of gardens. No doubt
squareness and regularity, by creating the esthetic
value of order, afford the greatest expression of
space, and it is astonishing how plots of ground,
which look puny under the villa system of curved
pathways and irregular clumps of shrubs, get a
decent roominess from straight-lined laying out.
But the square quartering of the garden-space, the
straight-lined linkage of its vista, the orderly radia-
tion of centering where its paths meet, are not set
forth here as being rules or recipes of art, but only
as the examples of that direct common sense which
should govern all garden operations. As will be
afterwards pointed out, straight lines are the easiest
laid out, the easiest made, and the easiest kept in
gardening. The more regular the general form of
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OBLONG GARDEN SCALE, TWELVE YARDS TO THE INCH
f The black lines show walls ; v = vegetables ; F = flowers ; s = sheds ; Y = yards.)
to any want of symmetry or balance in the
circle.
The principle of radiation is, however, very
generally applicable, and by use of it the broken
parts of irregular sites are connected together with
the proper expression of order and design, as is
indicated in the plan here shown.
It is to be observed that simplicity and perfect
balance have been illustrated in the plans shown,
in order to give clearness to the broadest principles
which underlie the laying out of gardens. No doubt
squareness and regularity, by creating the esthetic
value of order, afford the greatest expression of
space, and it is astonishing how plots of ground,
which look puny under the villa system of curved
pathways and irregular clumps of shrubs, get a
decent roominess from straight-lined laying out.
But the square quartering of the garden-space, the
straight-lined linkage of its vista, the orderly radia-
tion of centering where its paths meet, are not set
forth here as being rules or recipes of art, but only
as the examples of that direct common sense which
should govern all garden operations. As will be
afterwards pointed out, straight lines are the easiest
laid out, the easiest made, and the easiest kept in
gardening. The more regular the general form of
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