DOI Heft:
No. 373 (April 1924)
DOI Artikel:A garden designed by Mr. Percy S. Cane
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0211
A GARDEN DESIGNED BY MR.
PERCY S. CANE. 0000
THE modern expert garden designer
recognises that his art is a many-sided
one, involving painstaking study of a
number of diverse factors and an extensive
and discriminating knowledge of the char-
acter and habits of the innumerable trees,
shrubs and plants which, through enter-
prise of collectors, are nowadays available.
The cultivation of beautiful and healthy
plants, exhibiting individually the maxi-
mum vigour of foliage and flower is com-
mendable, but not in itself sufficient to
ensure a beautiful garden. Neither can the
type of design be satisfactory which is
evolved on a drawing board with T-square
and compasses by a would-be expert with
only a rudimentary knowledge of plants.
The making of a satisfying garden demands
a cultivated and sensitive instinct for
pleasing compositions, with harmony of
form and colour. The capable expert must,
in addition, have the architect’s trained
perception of values, of balance and pro-
portion, so that he may be able to treat
advantageously the formal elements in his
lay-out and any decorative features which
he may, quite legitimately, wish to incor-
porate in his scheme. Most important of
all, he must visualise his scheme primarily
in terms of plants and not of stonework.
Clearly the aim of the garden maker should
be to harmonise his formal and natural
units in the pleasantest and most effective
relationship, while striving all the time to
provide the most advantageous setting for
the plants he proposes to introduce. This
is essentially the whole art of gardening,
and does not preclude careful attention to
cultural details, such as the scientific pre-
paration of soil, considerations of aspect
and drainage, etc., matters coming defi-
nitely within his sphere of responsi-
bility. 000000
The work which Mr. Percy Cane has
carried out during recent years secures him
a prominent position among the pioneers
of the modern garden. He has been re-
sponsible for a number of delightful
schemes in which the decorative features
are happily conceived, while his planting
is skilful and effective. We reproduce
several illustrations of a garden at Mayfield,
Sussex, designed by him, and these indicate
PAVED GARDEN, " SHARNDEN,” MAYFIELD
SUSSEX. DESIGNED BY PERCY S. CANE
193
PERCY S. CANE. 0000
THE modern expert garden designer
recognises that his art is a many-sided
one, involving painstaking study of a
number of diverse factors and an extensive
and discriminating knowledge of the char-
acter and habits of the innumerable trees,
shrubs and plants which, through enter-
prise of collectors, are nowadays available.
The cultivation of beautiful and healthy
plants, exhibiting individually the maxi-
mum vigour of foliage and flower is com-
mendable, but not in itself sufficient to
ensure a beautiful garden. Neither can the
type of design be satisfactory which is
evolved on a drawing board with T-square
and compasses by a would-be expert with
only a rudimentary knowledge of plants.
The making of a satisfying garden demands
a cultivated and sensitive instinct for
pleasing compositions, with harmony of
form and colour. The capable expert must,
in addition, have the architect’s trained
perception of values, of balance and pro-
portion, so that he may be able to treat
advantageously the formal elements in his
lay-out and any decorative features which
he may, quite legitimately, wish to incor-
porate in his scheme. Most important of
all, he must visualise his scheme primarily
in terms of plants and not of stonework.
Clearly the aim of the garden maker should
be to harmonise his formal and natural
units in the pleasantest and most effective
relationship, while striving all the time to
provide the most advantageous setting for
the plants he proposes to introduce. This
is essentially the whole art of gardening,
and does not preclude careful attention to
cultural details, such as the scientific pre-
paration of soil, considerations of aspect
and drainage, etc., matters coming defi-
nitely within his sphere of responsi-
bility. 000000
The work which Mr. Percy Cane has
carried out during recent years secures him
a prominent position among the pioneers
of the modern garden. He has been re-
sponsible for a number of delightful
schemes in which the decorative features
are happily conceived, while his planting
is skilful and effective. We reproduce
several illustrations of a garden at Mayfield,
Sussex, designed by him, and these indicate
PAVED GARDEN, " SHARNDEN,” MAYFIELD
SUSSEX. DESIGNED BY PERCY S. CANE
193