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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 20

THE PRINCIPLES OF GARDEN "MAKING No. 18 of H Series of Articles on Architecture and Buildings, Prepared by Authority of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (Auckland Branch). It may fairly be laid down as the first essential in the planning of a garden that there should be some sort of direct connection between the kind of surrounding which is given to a house and the architectural character of the house itself. To treat the garden as an entirely separate affair, unrelated in any way to the building to which it is intended to serve as a setting, is neither judicious nor artistically sound. Such a separation would inevitably produce an unpleasant effect and would suggest a lack of intelligence on the part of the garden owner. In a rightly conceived plan it is not only the outlook on to the garden from the house that is taken into account, at least as much consideration is given to the views which are to be obtained in different directions from the garden itself, and obviously the house must be reckoned as a vitally important feature in any scheme which is devised to make these views fully effective. A Georgian colonial cottage, surrounded by an elaborate Italian garden with terraces, statues, fountains, etc., would look absurdly out of place, and such arrangement would be opposed to good taste and common sense. But if the garden is made as it should be, an appropriate adjunct to the house, and is designed in a style that is consistent with the architectural characteristics of the building, the result is agreeably harmonious, and has that air of completeness which makes convincing all-round artistic achievement. 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