. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ked out on a groundwork of terraces, and theirpossibilities as well as their charms, are endless. Seddingwell said that however much we were refined and cultivatedthere was always an underlying savagery which at timesdemanded satisfaction. One must tire of the sure mark ofmans hand, and long for nature unrestrained : the wide sea-board and the rude forest. So one finds in almost every Eng-lish place of any size some wilderness, some copse, or combe,which shall be left free and wild, or at the least a
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ked out on a groundwork of terraces, and theirpossibilities as well as their charms, are endless. Seddingwell said that however much we were refined and cultivatedthere was always an underlying savagery which at timesdemanded satisfaction. One must tire of the sure mark ofmans hand, and long for nature unrestrained : the wide sea-board and the rude forest. So one finds in almost every Eng-lish place of any size some wilderness, some copse, or combe,which shall be left free and wild, or at the least a reminder ofnature quite free. But the transition from the cultivated aspectof nature to its wilder form must be gradual; one does notwant to open the garden-gate in the wall and be in the the two, one finds the pasture-lands, rolling, sheep-cropped fields, bordered not with the masonry wall or theclipped hedge, but with the wild hedgerow, thick with thornand holly and punctuated with the upstanding elms. From thepastures to the copse and the woodland the transition is easyo. English Gardens
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