The Landscape Gardening Book, Wherein Are Set Down The Simple Laws Of Beauty And Utility Which Should Guide The Development Of All Grounds 12+

📗 The Landscape Gardening Book, Wherein Are Set Down The Simple Laws Of Beauty And Utility Which Should Guide The Development Of All Grounds - By GRACE TABOR - 1911 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I . INTRODUCION .................................... I TV. GETTING INTO A PLACE ........................... 41 . VII BOUNDARIES ................................... . 73 XVI . GARDEN FURNITURE . PLANTLNG AND GENERAL .............. .................... AND ACCESSORIES 157 CARE 164......... CHAPTER I - GARDENS do not happen. A Garden is as much the expression of an idea as a poem, a symphony, an essaya subway, an office-building or a gown But mdinariIy we fail to recognize this until the actual work of evolving a garden lies before us. And even then the truth is not always revealed, as witness the tmccrLain efforts which are madethe aimless setting of things into the ground here and moving them afterwards to there the laclc of coordination everywhere evident around the greater number of places. It is as if the bricks and mort.ar and wood which, properly combined, will make a house, were assembled on the ground and then arranged by the builder in some sort of way, without a plan or any specifications to guide him. Something would result, of course but who could foresee the form of that something Not even the builder himself could know what the finished appearance of the thing which he was constructing, might be. And certainly there would be very little chance of such a dwelling-if dwelling it proved...