ABSTRACT
Gardens and design were a major part of arts and crafts architectural thinking and planning in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The Hobby Horse was the quarterly journal of the Century Guild of Artists that contained essays on art, literature, and occasionally architecture and music in a journal that was deliberately designed to reflect its artistic content. The art of gardening has been much neglected this century. The only road of escape from this dreary stage scenery lay in the complete negation of art, – the making of gardens mere show-places for trees, shrubs and flowers, with thought only for the arrangements best suited to show these to advantage as objects in a museum. The life of this system, has lain in the immense number of new species, introduced the century. The old English garden was as much a natural product of English scenery, as anything that a landscape gardener could make.
