Gardens in the making / by Walter H. Godfrey ; with illustrative designs by the author and Edmund L. Wratten

Walter H. Godfrey

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/2753

Author

Imprint

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1914]

Physical Description

xvii, [1], 207, [5] p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm.

General Note

Preface dated April 1914.
Illustrated title page.
Eight double page plans inserted between end of text on p.202 and index, p.[205].
Publishers' advertisements on final [4]p.

Contents

I. The aim of the garden -- II. First principles -- III. The garden plan -- IV. From entrance to courtyard: Entrance gates and lodges; The approach to the house; Courtyards -- V. Garden boundaries: Walls and hedges; Gates and Gateways -- VI. The divisions of the garden: Laws and bowling alleys; Formal flower enclosures and borders; Paving and its uses -- VII. The terraced garden: Terraces and balustrades; Steps and stairways -- VIII. Garden furniture and buildings: seats and arbours; Loggias and garden houses; Greenhouses and orangeries: Seats and arbours, Loggias and garden houses, Greenhouses and orangeries -- IX. Some old-worlds features: Arcaded walks and pergolas; Topiary and the Labyrinth; Treillage and ironwork -- X. Water, stone and lead: Pools and fountaions; Figures and vases of stone and lead; Boxes and tubs for trees and flowers; Sundials -- XI. Some special gardens: The kitchen garden; The town and roof garden; Rock gardens -- Plans -- Index

Subject

Gardens — Design — Great Britain
Landscape architecture
Landscape gardening

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