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The book of garden design

Chapter 20: INDEX
By Charles Thonger
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A practical manual for designing and arranging gardens, presenting general principles—comfort, convenience, and simplicity—alongside site selection, paths and lawns, formal versus naturalistic planting, kitchen-garden and orchard layout, water features, hardy herbaceous perennials, alpine, aquatic and bog plants, flowering trees and shrubs, and climbers. The author emphasizes learning from nature and personal gardening experience, warns against slavish use of stock plans, and advises tailoring designs to soil, aspect, shelter, and existing timber. Illustrations and plant lists support guidance on grouping, borders, terraces, walks, and maintenance, with cautions against undue complexity, excessive formality, and overuse of evergreens.

INDEX

  • Architect, garden, 3.
  • Aspect, 24.
  • Avenues, 37.
  • Blenheim, 5.
  • Bog garden, plants for, 72.
  • Buildings, ugly, 27.
  • “Capability Brown,” 5.
  • Climbers, on trees, 83.
  • —— value of, 83.
  • —— varieties of, 84.
  • Design, artificial, 8.
  • —— competitions in, 10.
  • —— duplicating, 9.
  • —— eccentric, 18.
  • —— importance of flowers to, 60.
  • —— natural, 8.
  • —— simplicity of, 14.
  • —— variety in, 15.
  • Designers, landscape, 5.
  • —— paper, 3.
  • —— qualifications, 2.
  • Drives, carriage, 30.
  • Edgings, grass, 34.
  • —— natural, 34.
  • Elvaston, 38.
  • Espaliers, 48.
  • Evergreens, flowering, 75.
  • —— objections to, 74.
  • Garden, orchard, 51.
  • Gardens, formal, 4.
  • —— of Nature, 1.
  • Haddon, 4.
  • Hedges, yew, 38.
  • Kitchen garden, approach to, 46.
  • —— —— aspect, 45.
  • —— —— borders, 47.
  • —— —— buildings, 50.
  • —— —— prejudice against, 44.
  • —— —— walks, 47.
  • —— —— water supply, 49.
  • Lake, marginal planting, 57.
  • —— outlines of, 56.
  • Langley, Batty, 9.
  • Lawns, treatment of, 36.
  • —— value of, 35.
  • Levens, 38.
  • Maze, the, 40.
  • Orchard, beautiful, the, 51.
  • Paths, 17.
  • —— rules for making, 33
  • Perennials, blue-flowered, 65.
  • —— red-flowered, 66.
  • —— white-flowered, 61.
  • —— yellow-flowered, 63.
  • Plantations, boundary, 26, 41.
  • —— forming, 43.
  • Plants, Alpine, 69.
  • —— border, 61.
  • —— water, 70.
  • Property, approaches to, 22.
  • Property, outlines of, 27.
  • Repton, 6.
  • Results, forecasting, 20.
  • Roses, 84.
  • Shelter, 25.
  • Shrubs, flowering, 17, 76.
  • Site, accessibility of, 22.
  • Soils, 23.
  • Stream, example of treatment, 54.
  • Styles, multiplicity of, 12.
  • Terracing, 16.
  • Timber, existing, 28.
  • Toolhouse, 50.
  • Topiary, 38.
  • Torrent Walk, Dolgelly, 56.
  • Trees, clipped, 40.
  • Turf, value of, 35.
  • Walks, bower, 40.
  • —— paving of, 32.
  • —— serpentine, 34.
  • —— terrace, 32.
  • Walls, kitchen garden, 46.
  • Water, artificial treatment of, 53.
  • —— garden, the, 59.
  • —— stagnant, 54.
  • —— supply. 49.
  • —— works, 52.
  • Wires, fruit training, 46.
  • Yews, clipped, 38.