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The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens (1878)

Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935 · London, Macmillan · leaf 113

An illustration from The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens, 1878, leaf 113 — AIUS. [Chap. V. to accept as a law that when a garden is made very near toany kind of ornamental building it is indispensable to make it associate with the buildings—to carry the lines of stone asmuch as possible into the garden, to make it as angular and,it may be, as brick-dusty as possible, like… … Little Gardens within the Louvre, exterior vietv. {Ha<lutle.) position but expensive gewgaws in the shape of trees in tubs,squirting water, vases, coloured and broken gravels—things whichin their opinion would harmonise with the work of thearchitect. But unaided by these, and at a tenth of the…

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