Introduction: "This book is about formal, picturesque, and what I call agrarian gardens, and their relation to buildings. Planted and built elements are arranged into formal, picturesque, and agrarian patterns in the making of gardens and landscapes. It is a convenient tactic for disclosing differences in order to view similarities. This book was designed as it was being written. Drawings follow text, text follows drawings. A grid (in evidence, implied, or contradicted) was used from the beginning to structure the words and images on the pages. The pictorial Table of Contents adn introductions to the sections are intended to be read vertically as well as horizontally...."