Group of trees on garden lawn at Golder's Hill, Hampstead; picturesque effect in suburban garden
Natural and False Lines
Wakehurst. Elizabethan house with grounds not terraced
After we have settled the essential approaches, levels, and enclosures for shelter, privacy, or dividing lines around a house, the natural form or lines of the earth herself are in nearly all cases the best to follow, and in my work I face any labour to get the ground back into its natural level or fall where disfigured by ugly banks, lines, or angles.