The book of garden design

Title: The book of garden design
Author: Charles Thonger
Editor: Harry Roberts
Photographer: F. Mason Good
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
Preface
I. Of Gardens and Garden Designers
Nature’s Gardens—Qualifications necessary for the Designer—“Garden Architects”—Formal Gardens, Old and Modern—“Capability Brown”—Repton—Artificial and Natural Design—Uselessness of Stock Plans and Patterns.
II. General Principles
Comfort and Convenience the Primary Essentials—Undue Complexity to be avoided—Variety Desirable—Garden Paths—Eccentricity Condemned—Attempting too much—Colour and Contrast.
III. The Selection of a Site
Accessibility—Approach—Soils—Aspect—Altitude—Shelter—Surroundings—Outlines of Property—Existing Timber to be retained.
IV. Walks and Lawns
Carriage Drives to be Direct—Walks for Different Parts of the Garden—Serpentine Paths—Edging—Value of Lawns—Breadth and Space conveyed.
V. Formal and Landscape Planting
Avenues often Pretentious—Objections to Clipped Yew Hedges—Topiary—Flower Walks—The Maze—Natural Planting—Boundary Plantations—Specimen Trees—Grouping.
VI. Kitchen-Garden and Orchard
Unfounded Prejudice against Kitchen-Gardens—Site—Aspect—Boundaries—Borders—Good Walks a Necessity—Water-Supply—Fruit Plantations—The Orchard Beautiful.
VII. The Treatment of Water
Value of Water in the Garden Scene—Artificial Treatment—Natural Effects generally Preferred—Running Water—Planting on the Margin—Banks.
VIII. Hardy Herbaceous Perennials
Importance of Living Plants to Design—Border Plants with Various Coloured Flowers.
IX. Plants for Alpine, Aquatic, and Bog Gardens
Alpines, with Blue, Pink, Yellow, and White Flowers—Water Plants—Suitable Subjects for Marshy Margins—Bog Plants.
X. Flowering Trees and Shrubs
Evergreens Overplanted—Deciduous Trees—List of Varieties.
XI. Hardy Climbers
Climbers on Trees—Roses, Clematis, and other Desirable Subjects.
Index
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Lawn and Shade
Terrace Climbers
A Paved Walk
Sundial in Garden Walk
Stream and Woodland
Herbaceous Grouping
A Lily Tank
A Garden House

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