Volume 5 – Garden Design
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to volume 5
Part 1 - The Garden as a Work of Art
a) General Theory
1. Humphry Repton, illustrated motto from Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton (1822)
2. Sigismund Gottfried Dittmar, ‘The Artistic Beauty of Garden Culture: A Theoretical Essay’ [‘Der Kunstschönen der Gartencultur’], Neues Allgemeines Garten-Magazin, part II, vol. 1 (1825), pp. 251-262
3. John Claudius Loudon, Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (1838), pp. 136-142
4. Ramsay Richard Reinagle, ‘Original Beauty in Lines and Forms’, Gardener’s Magazine, vol. 3 (1827), pp. 247-252
5. James Main, ‘Remarks on the Question, whether the Architect or the Landscape Gardener should be Employed First’, Gardener’s Magazine, vol. 8 (1832), pp. 673-677
6. William Henry Leeds, ‘Landscape and Ornamental Gardening’, Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. 16 (1835), pp. 154-159
7. Anon., ‘On the Arrangement of Ornamental Plants’, Florist’s Journal (1840), pp. 177-180
8. Donald Beaton, ‘How to Proceed in the Arrangement of Pleasure-grounds’, Cottage Gardener, vol. 23 (1860), pp. 249-251
9. Edward Kemp, ‘Biddulph Grange’, Gardeners’ Chronicle (1856), p. 679
10. John Dando Sedding, Garden-craft Old and New (1890), pp. 2-5, 6-9, 13-14
11. Thomas Mawson, The Art and Craft of Garden-Making (1900), pp. 1-3, 5
b) …and in Practice
12. Thomas Love Peacock, extract from Headlong Hall (1816)
13. Robert Plumer Ward, extract from De Clifford, or the Constant Man (1841), pp. 231-240
14. Edward Kemp, How to Lay out a Garden, 3rd ed. (1864), pp. 28-33
15. Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) [1936 transl.], pp. 59-62, 65-66
16. Alfred Austin, The Garden that I Love (1892), pp. 14-15, 56-57, 114-117
Part 2. General Principles of Garden Design
a) The Landscape Garden
17. Humphry Repton, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1805), pp. 13-14, 108-110
18. Thomas Shepherd, Lectures on Landscape Gardening in Australia (1836), pp. 17-30
19. Robert Glendinning, ‘On the Introduction of Single Trees into Park Scenery’, Gardener’s Magazine, vol. 12 (1836), pp. 513-515
20. Robert Henry Cheney, excerpt from ‘Landscape Gardening’, Quarterly Review, vol. 98 (1855), pp. 206-212
21. Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau, ‘Enclosure’, Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei (1834) [transl. 2014 as Hints on Landscape Gardening], pp. 36-38.
22. Carl August Sckell, ‘Observations on the Landscape Gardening of Germany, as Compared with that of England’, Gardener’s Magazine, vol. 10 (1834), pp. 197-200
23. MM. Denis & Renouard, ‘Landscape Garden Containing a Symmetrical Garden’ (Jardin Paysager Renfermant un Jardin Symmetrique), Belgique Horticole, vol. 3 (1853), p. 228
24. J. C. Loudon, Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (1838), pp. 159-169
25. James Fenimore Cooper, extracts from ‘American and European Scenery Compared’, in The Home Book of the Picturesque (1852), pp. 52-54, 58-60, 64
26. Andrew Jackson Downing, Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841), pp. 28-43
27. Joshua Major, The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1852), pp. 6-8, 18-24
28. Mungo Temple, ‘Marnock’s Maxims’, Gardeners’ Chronicle (1890), p. 20
29. H. E. Milner, The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1890), pp. 1-8
30. Thomas Mawson, ‘Planting for Landscape Effect’, The Art and Craft of Garden-Making (1900), pp. 113-118, 121-123
b) The Architectural Garden and Historical Revivals
31. Humphry Repton, extract from Enquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening (1806), pp. 31-41
32. Humphry Repton, extract from Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1816), pp. 40-41, 48; 137-147
33. John Claudius Loudon, introduction to his edition of The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton Esq. (1840), pp. v-x
34. Charles M’Intosh, The Flower Garden (1838), pp. 9-20
35. John Lindley, ‘On the Arrangement of Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds in the Elizabethan Age’, from Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. 3 (1848), pp. 1-2
36. Robert Glendinning, ‘Elvaston Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Harrington’, Gardeners’ Chronicle (1849), p. 773
37. Donald Beaton, ‘Shrubland Park’, Cottage Gardener, vol. 16 (1856), pp. 452-453, 469-470
38. Edward Kemp, How to Lay out a Garden, 3rd ed. (1864), p. 91-95, 99, 110-113
39. F. G. Stephens, ‘Horticultural Society’s New Gardens’, Athenaeum, 16 March 1861, pp. 362-363, William Hepworth Dixon, ‘Our Weekly Gossip’, Athenaeum, 8 June 1861, p. 766, F. G. Stephens, ‘Horticultural Gardens – Kensington’, Athenaeum, 19 October 1861, p. 509
40. John Lindley and William Andrews Nesfield, leader from Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1862, pp. 379-380
41. Adolphe Alphand, Introduction [incorporating a history of gardening, excerpts from which follow), Les Promenades de Paris (1867-73), pp. xv-xxxi
42. Eleanor Vere Boyle, extracts from Days and Hours in a Garden (1884), pp. 3-13
43 John Dando Sedding, extract from Garden-craft Old and New (1890), pp. 179-182
44. Reginald Blomfield, extract from The Formal Garden in England (1891), pp. 1-7, 11-13
45. William Robinson, extract Garden Design and Architects’ Gardens (1892), pp. 25-30
46. Lothar Abel, ‘The Artistic Aspirations of the Gardeners of our Century’ [‘Die Kunst Bestrehungen in der Gärtner unseres Jahrhunderts’], Wiener Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung, vol. 17 (1892), pp. 325-333
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