{"product_id":"2940013902374","title":"Garden-Craft Old And New","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAP.                                                  PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I. THE THEORY OF A GARDEN                             1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II. ART IN A GARDEN                                   28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SKETCH                 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV. THE STIFF GARDEN                                  70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V. THE \"LANDSCAPE-GARDEN\"                            98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI. THE TECHNICS OF GARDENING                        133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII. THE TECHNICS OF GARDENING (_CONTINUED_)          153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    ON THE OTHER SIDE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII. A PLEA FOR SAVAGERY                               183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IX. IN PRAISE OF BOTH                                 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A GARDEN ENCLOSED                            _FRONTISPIECE_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PLAN OF ROSARY WITH SUNDIAL                  TO FACE P. 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PLAN OF TENNIS LAWN, TERRACES, AND FLOWER\u003cbr\u003e    GARDEN                                                      158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    GENERAL PLAN OF THE PLEASAUNCE, VILLA\u003cbr\u003e    ALBANI, ROME                                                160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PLAN SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF SUNK FLOWER\u003cbr\u003e    GARDEN, YEW WALK, AND TENNIS COURT                          164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PLAN OF SUNK FLOWER GARDEN AND YEW\u003cbr\u003e    HEDGES                                                      166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PLAN SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF FOUNTAIN,\u003cbr\u003e    YEW WALK, AND FLOWER BEDS FOR A\u003cbr\u003e    LARGE GARDEN                                                180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF GARDEN IN THE PRECEDING\u003cbr\u003e    PLAN                                                        180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF A DESIGN FOR A GARDEN,\u003cbr\u003e    WITH CLIPPED YEW HEDGES AND FLOWER\u003cbr\u003e    BEDS                                                        182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGARDEN-CRAFT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON THE THEORY OF A GARDEN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Come hither, come hither, come hither;\u003cbr\u003e        Here shall he see\u003cbr\u003e        No enemy\u003cbr\u003e    But winter and rough weather.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome subjects require to be delineated according to their own taste.\u003cbr\u003eWhatever the author's notions about it at starting, the subject somehow\u003cbr\u003eslips out of his grasp and dictates its own method of treatment and\u003cbr\u003estyle. The subject of gardening answers to this description: you cannot\u003cbr\u003etreat it in a regulation manner. It is a discursive subject that of\u003cbr\u003eitself breeds laggard humours, inclines you to reverie, and suggests a\u003cbr\u003ediscursive style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis much in defence of my desultory essay. The subject, in a manner,\u003cbr\u003edrafts itself. Like the garden, it, too, has many aspects, many\u003cbr\u003eside-paths, that open out broken vistas to detach one's interest and\u003cbr\u003elure from the straight, broad terrace-platform of orderly discourse. At\u003cbr\u003efirst sight, perhaps, with the balanced beauty of the thing in front of\u003cbr\u003eyou, carefully parcelled out and enclosed, as all proper gardens are,\u003cbr\u003ethe theme may appear so compact, that all meandering after side-issues\u003cbr\u003emay seem sheer wantonness. As you proceed, however, it becomes apparent\u003cbr\u003ethat you may not treat of a garden and disregard the instincts it\u003cbr\u003eprompts, the connection it has with Nature, its place in Art, its office\u003cbr\u003ein the world as a sweetener of human life. True, the garden itself is\u003cbr\u003ehedged in and neatly defined, but behind the garden is the man who made\u003cbr\u003eit; behind the man is the house he has built, which the garden adorns;\u003cbr\u003eand every man has his humours; every house has its own conditions of\u003cbr\u003eplan and site; every garden has its own atmosphere, its own contents,\u003cbr\u003eits own story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo now, having in this short preamble discovered something of the rich\u003cbr\u003evariety and many-sidedness of the subject, I proceed to write down three\u003cbr\u003equestions just to try what the yoke of classification may do to keep\u003cbr\u003eone's feet within bounds: (1) What is a garden, and why is it made? (2)\u003cbr\u003eWhat ornamental treatment is fit and right for a garden? (3) What should\u003cbr\u003ebe the relation of the garden to the house?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForgive me if, in dealing with the first point, I so soon succumb to the\u003cbr\u003eallurements of my theme, and drop into flowers of speech! To me, then, a\u003cbr\u003egarden is the outward and visible sign of man's innate love of\u003cbr\u003eloveliness. It reveals man on his artistic side. Beauty, it would seem,\u003cbr\u003ehas a magnetic charm for him; and the ornamental display of flowers\u003cbr\u003ebetokens his bent for, and instinctive homage of beauty.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070509957360,"sku":"2940013902374","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013902374_p0.jpg?v=1763596938","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013902374","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}