Madeline Agar

Madeline Agar Madeline Agnes Agar (21 May 1874 – 30 November 1967) was a British garden and landscape designer, author, educator, and pioneer for women as landscaping and horticultural professionals. Quotes Garden Design in Theory and Practice (1911) There are many good and helpful books worth careful reading—among which may be mentioned: Edward Kemp (landscape architect) Kemp's How to Lay out a Garden, Henry Ernest Milner Milner's Landscape Gardening, Reginald Blomfield Blomfield's Formal Garden in England, Édouard André Ed. André's great work L'Art des Jardins, Thomas Hayton Mawson Mawson's Art and Craft of Garden Making, and from the historical side A History of Gardening in England by the Hon. Alicia Amherst. The standard work on Japanese gardens is by Josiah Conder (architect) J. Conder. Many other books might be mentioned, but the above I have found the most interesting from the design point of view ... Garden Design in Theory and Practice 2nd Sidgwick & Jackson 1913 Preface ix–xi https://books.google.com/books/about/Garden_Design_in_Theory_and_Practice.html?id=chguAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR11 (272 pages; quote from p. xi; 1st edition 1911) The Dutch garden Dutch style came in with William III of England William and Mary, and topiary work, already practised, became the vogue. Stiff parterres, and Orangery orange houses, with the orange trees in tubs outside during the summer, were in every garden of fashion. ... One of the most charming developments of Anne, Queen of Great Britain Queen Anne's time in topiary work was the long alley bordered by trees, generally Taxus baccata yew, kept clipped up to about 10 ft. and then allowed to feather naturally. During this reign the revolt began towards "nature". p. 8 The position of the kitchen garden is largely dependent on the position of the kitchen, and easy and private access should be arranged between them. Size has to be settled. An acre is supposed to be enough to supply ten persons with vegetables and small fruit, and the designer can tell from the type of house how many have to be catered for; and he rules off sufficient space.Then come the lawns for games. The most naturally level part should be chosen for them, other conditions being satisfactory. A lawn tennis court measures 78 ft. × 36 ft., and to ensure ample running back space, 120 ft. × 60 ft. must be allowed. Croquet requires 115 ft. × 84 ft. for a full sized game, and 120 × 90 ft. of levelled lawn should be provided. A fall of 2 in. in the 100 ft. does not affect tennis, but for croquet the lawn must be a true level. A tennis court ought to run north and south in order to avoid the afternoon sun. pp. 108–109 External links Madeline Agar (1874-1967) Amersham Museum (amershammuseum.org) https://amershammuseum.org/history/people/20th-century/madeline-agar/ The Remarkable Women of Swanley Horticultural College Hextable Heritage Society (hextable-heritage.co.uk) https://www.hextable-heritage.co.uk/Remarkable%20women.pdf Category:1874 births Category:1967 deaths Category:Designers Category:Educators from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:People from London Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1870s