NO GRASS IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING! 46 "IMPROVING" BATTERSEA PARK! 50 NATURE AND CLIPPED YEWS 53 NO LINE IN NATURE! 62 "VEGETABLE SCULPTURE" 66 ILLUSTRATIONS RHIANVA To face page 2 GROUP OF TREES ON GARDEN LAWN AT GOLDER'S HILL, HAMPSTEAD Page 4 WAKEHURST To face page 6 GILBERT WHITE'S HOUSE AT SELBORNE " 10 EXAMPLE OF FORMAL GARDENING Page 12 LONGLEAT To face page 16 OLD PLACE, LINDFIELD " 18 ARUNDEL CASTLE " 20 TAILPIECE Page 22 WEST DEAN To face page 24 ATHELHAMPTON HALL, DORSET " 26 THE VICARAGE GARDEN, ODIHAM " 30 UNCLIPPED TREES AT THE LITTLE TRIANON Page 34 WESTONBIRT To face page 36 THRUMPTON HALL " 40 TAILPIECE Page 45 GOODWOOD To face page 46 AVENUE IN PARIS " 50 CLIPPED TREES AT THE LITTLE TRIANON Page 52 THE "GRANGE," HARTLEY WINTNEY To face page 54 A YEW TREE ON MOUNTAIN, N. ENGLAND " 56 BUILDING IN PARIS " 58 BROADLANDS, HANTS " 64 WARREN HOUSE, COOMBE WOOD " 66 DRUMMOND CASTLE " 68 MADRESFIELD " 70 TAILPIECE Page 73 "The number of those who really think seriously before they begin to write is small; extremely few of them think about _the subject itself;_ the remainder think only about the books that have been written on it."--ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER. GARDEN DESIGN[1] [1] _The Formal Garden in England._ By Reginald Blomfield and F. Inigo Thomas. London: Macmillan and Co.