. The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens. Gardening; Gardens; Parks. Chap. I.] THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. the formalism which convenience and economy require the archi- tect to bear in mind, no matter how widely he diverges from the commonplace in general design. In garden or in park there is practically no limit to variety; in buildings there are many. Vegetation varies every day in the year, but buildings bear the stamp of unchangeableness. In the tree and plant world we dea
. The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens. Gardening; Gardens; Parks. Chap. I.] THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. the formalism which convenience and economy require the archi- tect to bear in mind, no matter how widely he diverges from the commonplace in general design. In garden or in park there is practically no limit to variety; in buildings there are many. Vegetation varies every day in the year, but buildings bear the stamp of unchangeableness. In the tree and plant world we deal with things by no means remotely allied to ourselves : their LAKE AND ISLAND VIEW, An absurd kiosk-like structure on this point of tlie island has been omitted in t/ie s/ietch. from the unfolding bud to the tottering trunk, are as the lives of men. There is infinite change in the individual, and boundless variety in species and their forms. Therefore the opportunity for variety is beyond comparison greater in gardening than in the building art, or indeed in any other art whatever. As yet we are far from perfection as builders, and the garden still holds the relation to the building art which is described by B 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, Macmillan and co.
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