DOI Heft:
No. 136 (July, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: A cottage in the country
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0146
A Cottage in the Country
Passing into the water-garden, with its central preferable than the sombre yew. As a'matter of
stream and paved margins, and turning to the left, fact, the yew maintains its place chiefly on account
an important vista reveals itself on reaching the of its unequalled background qualities. Roses and
opposite extremity, where one looks through the lilies seen in a setting of flowering shrubs are still
herb-garden, kitchen-garden, and well-court; and roses and lilies, to be sure, but they have lost much
walking up this path back towards the house, one of the beauty of their effect they might have dis-
passes again the two cross vistas. Such a principle played if relieved against the dusky yew, which
of arrangement is necessarily more interesting than enters into no competition with their brightness,
the mere disposition of winding walks, which never And so, to a great extent, the more permanent frame-
fulfil the promise they seem to convey of some work of the garden may be regarded as a sort of
vision of the beyond. The defect of the formal stage and setting for the passing pageant of the
treatment often lies in a certain barrenness, a lack flowers.
of mystery, and those surprises and dramatic effects It will be noted that the garden scheme under
of light and shade which are such essential attributes consideration includes no lawn or mown grass, and
of the garden. Open flower gardens are best ap- this omission is chiefly due to the desire to obtain
proached through dim and shady alleys, and every- in a cottage not constantly occupied a garden which
where broad and open sunlit spaces should be con- will not demand that constant attention which the
trasted with the shade of pergolas and embowered presence of mown grass entails. The orchard which
paths. In passing through these enclosed ways replaces it will yield the beauty of its blossom and
one loses all conception
of the garden scheme till
at the intersection of a path
one suddenly perceives
through vistas of roses
and orchard - trees some
distant garden ornament,
or, perhaps, a seat or
summer - house ; and so
one becomes conscious of
a scheme ordered and
arranged to secure definite
and well-considered effects.
As in , a dramatic enter-
tainment, apartments of
the garden, full of tragic
shade, are followed by open
spaces where flowers laugh
in the sun; and by such
devices the art of man ar-
ranges natural forms to ap-
peal in the strongest way to
the human consciousness.
In such arrangements
one of the most important
considerations is the proper
subordination of certain
parts as backgrounds. The
modern gardener is apt
to look upon such features
as yew hedges in the
garden as mere archaic
affectations, and he points
to many modern flowering
shrubs as being more dr. henneberg's house professor Hoffmann, architect
124
Passing into the water-garden, with its central preferable than the sombre yew. As a'matter of
stream and paved margins, and turning to the left, fact, the yew maintains its place chiefly on account
an important vista reveals itself on reaching the of its unequalled background qualities. Roses and
opposite extremity, where one looks through the lilies seen in a setting of flowering shrubs are still
herb-garden, kitchen-garden, and well-court; and roses and lilies, to be sure, but they have lost much
walking up this path back towards the house, one of the beauty of their effect they might have dis-
passes again the two cross vistas. Such a principle played if relieved against the dusky yew, which
of arrangement is necessarily more interesting than enters into no competition with their brightness,
the mere disposition of winding walks, which never And so, to a great extent, the more permanent frame-
fulfil the promise they seem to convey of some work of the garden may be regarded as a sort of
vision of the beyond. The defect of the formal stage and setting for the passing pageant of the
treatment often lies in a certain barrenness, a lack flowers.
of mystery, and those surprises and dramatic effects It will be noted that the garden scheme under
of light and shade which are such essential attributes consideration includes no lawn or mown grass, and
of the garden. Open flower gardens are best ap- this omission is chiefly due to the desire to obtain
proached through dim and shady alleys, and every- in a cottage not constantly occupied a garden which
where broad and open sunlit spaces should be con- will not demand that constant attention which the
trasted with the shade of pergolas and embowered presence of mown grass entails. The orchard which
paths. In passing through these enclosed ways replaces it will yield the beauty of its blossom and
one loses all conception
of the garden scheme till
at the intersection of a path
one suddenly perceives
through vistas of roses
and orchard - trees some
distant garden ornament,
or, perhaps, a seat or
summer - house ; and so
one becomes conscious of
a scheme ordered and
arranged to secure definite
and well-considered effects.
As in , a dramatic enter-
tainment, apartments of
the garden, full of tragic
shade, are followed by open
spaces where flowers laugh
in the sun; and by such
devices the art of man ar-
ranges natural forms to ap-
peal in the strongest way to
the human consciousness.
In such arrangements
one of the most important
considerations is the proper
subordination of certain
parts as backgrounds. The
modern gardener is apt
to look upon such features
as yew hedges in the
garden as mere archaic
affectations, and he points
to many modern flowering
shrubs as being more dr. henneberg's house professor Hoffmann, architect
124