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Book: The Principles of Landscape Gardening

Chapter 1: Principles of Landscape Gardening

The principles of landscape gardening art
Gardening authors on the ancient style
Gardening authors on the modern style
Other writers who have treated of landscape-gardening
Archibald Alison on works of art
Design objectives
Objects made beautiful by composition
Design in the ancient style of landscape-gardening
Regular forms - Leibnitz and Montesquieu
Regularity and uniformity in design
Design is essential in landscape-gardening
Landscape design in the modern style
Landscape-gardeners in the modern style
Fitness as a source of relative beauty
The doctrine of fitness in laying out grounds
Utility as source of relative beauty of forms
Accidental association as a source of relative beauties
Appropriation as a source of beauty
The chief object of all the imitative arts
The peculiar beauties of landscape gardening
The principles of imitative landscape-gardening
The difference between landscape gardening and painting
Principles of composition for the landscape-gardener
The imitation of nature - mimesis - by the landscape gardener
The visible hand of man in natural style gardens
An illustration of the theory of landscape-gardening
Unity as a design principle
Truth to nature as a design principle
Disposition of parts, forms, masses colours and light
Compositional connection between parts
Relationships between parts and groups
Colour composition
Light and shade in gardens and landscapes
The sky, the cows, and the sheep
Natural expression of melancholy and grandeur
Picturesque poetic, or sentimental expression
Picturesque expression
Picturesque woods and ground landform
Other examples of picturesque beauty

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