Garden Design and Architects' Gardens / Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic

A series of illustrated reviews critiques the revival of formal, architect-driven gardening and argues for a more naturalistic approach, contending that clipped, aligned trees and rigid geometry diminish landscape beauty. It explores principles such as natural versus false lines, the relation of buildings to surrounding planting, the effects of time and seasonal growth, and practical plant arrangement. Garden examples and illustrations are used to demonstrate alternatives and to offer aesthetic reasoning and guidance that favor picturesque planting, informal lawns, and the naturalization of hardy exotic species.