Table of Contents

Preface to the fifth edition • Preface to the fourth edition • The Precedent of Garden Design • The Practice of Garden Design • The Choice of a Site and its Treatment • Entrances and Carriage Courts • Gates and Fences for Garden and Park • Drives, Avenues, and Service Roads • Terraces and Terrace Gardens • Flower Gardens, Beds, and Borders • Lawn, Glades and Garden Walks • Verandahs, Summer-Houses, Pergolas, and Bridges • Statuary, Treillage, and Garden Furniture • Decorative Treatment of Water • Rock, Wall and Bog Gardens • Greenhouses, Vineries, and Fruit Houses • Kitchen Gradens and Orchards • The Formal Arrangement of Trees • Planting for Landscape Effect • Trees and Shrubs for Garden and Park • Climbers for Walls, Pergolas and Trellis • Hardy Perennials for Beds, Borders, etc • Examples of Garden Design; Gardens of Various Sizes, Gardens of Exceptional Kinds

About the Author

Thomas Hayton Mawson was a was a leading early 20th-century British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner. He lectured at Liverpool University's School of Civic Design from 1910 to 1924. He published Civic Art, a discussion of town planning in 1911 and his autobiography, The Life and Work of an English Landscape Architect in 1927.