DOI Heft:
No. 196 (July, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Architectural gardening, [6]: With illustrations after designs by C. F. Mallows, F. R. I. B. A., and F. L. Griggs
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0131
Architectural Gardening.—I/.
A HOUSE BY A STREAM DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B. A.
sequence, triviality and
discordance, replacing
the simple and quiet
effects of ordered beauty
so characteristic of the
old work, and which are
the natural result of re-
strained design.
This same restless-
ness, incoherence and
conflict of intention are
written all over our
streets and roads and
lanes in building no less
than in garden design,
and comes from a very
simple and primitive
cause — the want of
sound principle and
knowledge of the first
laws that should govern
effect. At Wymondley Priory, in Hert-
fordshire, is a very ancient quadrangle
of box, a sort of extra cloister, planted
by the monks, of a charm beyond
•description, although the whole effect
is now suffering from age and former
periods of neglect. At Pinsbury near
Sapperton, in Gloucestershire, is a long
alley of yew of such density that a
heavy rain scarcely penetrates it, and
there are also the better-known ex-
amples at Melbourne, in Derbyshire,
and the great hornbeam hedge in the
gardens of Levens Hall, Westmorland.
The chief beauty of effect in all these
places is undoubtedly due to the fact
that the trees are all of one kind.
This it might reasonably be assumed
would have been self-evident without
examples of failure or success to teach
gardeners. Yet the lessons to be learnt
from the old gardens, which all agree
in praising, in the making of the new,
seem to be ignored altogether in most
cases, or if they are remembered, the
desire to profit by the lessons the old
work teaches, is invariably damaged
by another desire to improve upon
them, and so restlessness creeps into
what ought to be “abodes of peace”
and repose, bringing with it, as a natural
PLAN OF HOUSE AND GARDEN
DESIGNED BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B. A.
(See perspective view on page 102)
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A HOUSE BY A STREAM DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B. A.
sequence, triviality and
discordance, replacing
the simple and quiet
effects of ordered beauty
so characteristic of the
old work, and which are
the natural result of re-
strained design.
This same restless-
ness, incoherence and
conflict of intention are
written all over our
streets and roads and
lanes in building no less
than in garden design,
and comes from a very
simple and primitive
cause — the want of
sound principle and
knowledge of the first
laws that should govern
effect. At Wymondley Priory, in Hert-
fordshire, is a very ancient quadrangle
of box, a sort of extra cloister, planted
by the monks, of a charm beyond
•description, although the whole effect
is now suffering from age and former
periods of neglect. At Pinsbury near
Sapperton, in Gloucestershire, is a long
alley of yew of such density that a
heavy rain scarcely penetrates it, and
there are also the better-known ex-
amples at Melbourne, in Derbyshire,
and the great hornbeam hedge in the
gardens of Levens Hall, Westmorland.
The chief beauty of effect in all these
places is undoubtedly due to the fact
that the trees are all of one kind.
This it might reasonably be assumed
would have been self-evident without
examples of failure or success to teach
gardeners. Yet the lessons to be learnt
from the old gardens, which all agree
in praising, in the making of the new,
seem to be ignored altogether in most
cases, or if they are remembered, the
desire to profit by the lessons the old
work teaches, is invariably damaged
by another desire to improve upon
them, and so restlessness creeps into
what ought to be “abodes of peace”
and repose, bringing with it, as a natural
PLAN OF HOUSE AND GARDEN
DESIGNED BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B. A.
(See perspective view on page 102)
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