. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. 48 Gardens for Small Country Houses. about fourteen miles away. Still more to the right Wolmer Forest appears as a bluish haze ; nearer in the same direction are the woods in the region of Waverley Abbey, and, close at hand, the valley of the Wey, backed by the ruined Chapel of St. Catherine on its steep hill of sand and rock. The garden ground, all on the southern face of the hill, but so near the top that it is greatly exposed, had already been laid out to a certain degree when the garden designer took it in hand. Tennis lawn, croquet la
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. 48 Gardens for Small Country Houses. about fourteen miles away. Still more to the right Wolmer Forest appears as a bluish haze ; nearer in the same direction are the woods in the region of Waverley Abbey, and, close at hand, the valley of the Wey, backed by the ruined Chapel of St. Catherine on its steep hill of sand and rock. The garden ground, all on the southern face of the hill, but so near the top that it is greatly exposed, had already been laid out to a certain degree when the garden designer took it in hand. Tennis lawn, croquet lawn and bowling green had been levelled and made; but the steepness of the remainder, composed of grassy slopes between clumps of shrubs and flowers of no particular design, was found to be incommodious, and great need was . felt for. FIG. 57.—STEPS AND PAVEMENT AT THE EAST END OF ROSE GARDEN. GENERAL PLAN (fIG. 56). VIEW POINT " B " ON somethmg more restful and systematic. It was evident that nothing satisfactory could be done without a serious amount of moving of earth. The ground lay in humps and hollows too blunt and shapeless in form to be utilised as they were and yet with sides so-steep that foothold was precarious and all progression uncomfortable Happily, the owners were willing to face the necessary outlay, by no means a shght one ; for digging m pure chalk is almost as serious a matter as quarrying in stone and m places it was necessary to go eight feet into the sohd, and also to find means of disposal of the waste stuff excavated. This was tipped all along the lowest of the ground to form a firm embankment for the rose garden. It was found just possible to get a width of fifty-five feet and a length of two hundred and eighty feet so that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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