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 234
e garden, which,above any other artificial creation, should give us the sweetestand most wholesome fellowship with nature ? Simply that theirdoings result from ignorance of what a true garden ought to be.The Avorst thing that can be done with it is to introduce any featurewhich, unlike the… … Char XIV.] TIIK liAltDENS OF VERSAILLES. 105 It is iierfectly true that there are some positions where anintrusion of architecture and embankments into the garden isjustitiahle, now and then even necessary. The misfortune is thatthey are often said to be so when such is not the case. Tlie…
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