Main entry:

Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935, author.

Title & Author:

Garden design and architects' gardens : two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic / by W. Robinson, F.L.S.

Publication:

London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1892.

Description:

xviii, 73 pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
27 wood engravings: 20 are full page and seven are in the text.
Dedicated to Sir Philip Currie.
The books reviewed are: The formal garden in England / by Reginald Blomfield and F. Inigo Thomas, London, 1892 ; and Garden-craft, old and new / by John D. Sedding, London, 1891.
Garden design -- Natural and false lines -- "Uncultivated nature" -- The true landscape -- Buildings in relation to the garden -- Time and garden -- True use of a garden -- Formal gardening -- "Nature," and what we mean by it -- "All our paths" are crooked! -- "The only garden possible!" -- "No design in landscape" -- No grass in landscape gardening! -- "Improving" Battersea Park! -- Nature and clipped yews -- No line in nature! -- "Vegetable sculpture."
Also issued online.

Summary:

Robinson characterizes the two "reactionary books" - Sedding's Garden Craft Old and New and Blomfield's 'The Formal Garden in England:' "not worth notice for their own sake, as they contribute nothing to our knowledge of the beautiful art of gardening or garden design."

Subject:

Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942. Formal garden in England.
Sedding, John Dando, 1838-1891. Garden-craft.
Sedding, John Dando, 1838-1891. Garden-craft old and new.
Gardens Design.
Landscape gardening.
Gardens, British Design.
Jardins Architecture.
landscape gardening.

Added entries:

Currie, Philip, Sir, 1834-1906, dedicatee.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 28516
Call No.: 6000; ID:88-B14280
Status: Available