| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| Preface | [v] |
| I. | Of Gardens and Garden Designers | [1] |
| 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 | [12] |
| 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 | [21] |
| Accessibility—Approach—Soils—Aspect—Altitude—Shelter—Surroundings—Outlines
of Property—Existing
Timber to be retained. | |
| IV. | Walks and Lawns | [30] |
| 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 | [37] |
| 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 | [44] |
| 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 | [52] |
| Value of Water in the Garden Scene—Artificial
Treatment—Natural Effects generally Preferred—Running
Water—Planting on the Margin—Banks. | |
| VIII. | Hardy Herbaceous Perennials | [60] |
| Importance of Living Plants to Design—Border
Plants with Various Coloured Flowers. | |
| IX. | Plants for Alpine, Aquatic, and Bog Gardens | [69] |
| Alpines, with Blue, Pink, Yellow, and White
Flowers—Water Plants—Suitable Subjects for
Marshy Margins—Bog Plants. | |
| X. | Flowering Trees and Shrubs | [74] |
| Evergreens Overplanted—Deciduous Trees—List of
Varieties. | |
| XI. | Hardy Climbers | [83] |
| Climbers on Trees—Roses, Clematis, and other
Desirable Subjects. | |
| Index | [89] |