Garden-Craft Old and New

An extended treatment addresses the theory and practice of garden design, balancing philosophical reflections on gardens as a meeting of nature and art with concrete guidance on layout and horticultural technique. It surveys historical and comparative approaches, contrasts formal stiff and picturesque landscape styles, and supplies plans and illustrations for sunk beds, yew walks, terraces and courts. The author advocates a temperate synthesis that preserves wildness where fitting while applying craft to enhance beauty, and pairs practical technics with aesthetic and moral meditations on renewal, transience, and human stewardship of planted space.