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John Dando Sedding. Garden-Craft Old and New
Garden-Craft Old and New
Table of Contents
PREFACE
MEMOIR
GARDEN-CRAFT
CHAPTER I
ON THE THEORY OF A GARDEN
CHAPTER II
ON ART IN A GARDEN
CHAPTER III
HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SKETCH OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN
CHAPTER IV
HISTORICAL SKETCH—CONTINUED. THE STIFF GARDEN
CHAPTER V
THE "LANDSCAPE-GARDEN."
CHAPTER VI
THE TECHNICS OF GARDENING.[37]
CHAPTER VII
THE TECHNICS OF GARDENING—(continued.)
PLAN OF ROSERY, WITH SUNDIAL
PLAN OF TENNIS LAWN, TERRACES, AND FLOWER GARDEN
GENERAL PLAN OF THE PLEASAUNCE, VILLA ALBANI, ROME
PLAN SHEWING ARRANGEMENT OF SUNK FLOWER GARDEN, YEW WALK, AND TENNIS COURT
PLAN OF SUNK FLOWER GARDEN AND YEW HEDGES
PLAN SHEWING ARRANGEMENT OF FOUNTAIN, YEW WALK, AND FLOWER BEDS FOR A LARGE GARDEN (PERSPECTIVE VIEW)
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF GARDEN IN PLAN FOLLOWING
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF A DESIGN FOR A GARDEN, WITH CLIPPED YEW HEDGES AND FLOWER BEDS
CHAPTER VIII
ON THE OTHER SIDE.—A PLEA FOR SAVAGERY
CHAPTER IX
IN PRAISE OF BOTH
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John Dando Sedding
Published by Good Press, 2021
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John Sedding was an artist by a necessity of his nature. God made him so, and he could not but exercise his gift, but apart from the satisfaction that comes by doing what we are meant for, it filled him with thankfulness to have been born to a craft with ends so noble as are the ends of Art. To give pleasure and to educate are aims good indeed to be bound by, especially when by education we understand, not mind-stuffing, but mind-training, in this case the training of faculty to discern and be moved by the poetry, the spiritual suggestiveness of common everyday life. This brought his calling into touch with working folk.
As a man, John Sedding impressed us all by the singular and beautiful simplicity and childlikeness of his character, a childlikeness which never varied, and nothing, not even the popularity and homage which at last surrounded him, seemed able to spoil it. He never lost his boyish spontaneity and frankness, the unrestrained brightness of his manners and address, his boyish love of fun, and hearty, ringing laugh. Mr Walter Crane speaks of his "indomitable gaiety and spirits which kept all going, especially in our country outings." "He always led the fun," writes Mr Lethaby, "at one time at the head of a side at 'tug of war,' at another, the winner in an 'egg and spoon race.'" His very faults were the faults of childhood, the impulsiveness, the quick and unreflecting resentment against wrong, and the vehement denunciation of it. He trusted his instincts far more than his reason, and on the whole, his instincts served him right well, yet at times they failed him, as in truth they fail us all. There were occasions when a little reflection would have led him to see that his first rapid impressions were at fault, and so have spared himself and others some pain and misunderstanding. Let a thing appear to him false, unfair, or cowardly, he would lower his lance and dash full tilt at it at once, sometimes to our admiration, sometimes to our amusement when the appearance proved but a windmill in the mist, sometimes to our dismay when—a rare case—he mistook friend for foe.
