. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. I lO Balustrades and Walls. concrete was poured. An admirable crown is given to the wall by dark grey Dutch pantiles. The building of garden walls to mask kitchen courts and other spaces, which are necessarily untidy at times, belongs rather to the design of the house than of the garden, but one example is illustrated in Fig. 146 because of its intrinsically garden treatment. A stout trellis is set penthouse-fashion from the ridged screen wall (in the foregroimd of the picture) to the wall of the house, and offers hospitality to such creep


. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. I lO Balustrades and Walls. concrete was poured. An admirable crown is given to the wall by dark grey Dutch pantiles. The building of garden walls to mask kitchen courts and other spaces, which are necessarily untidy at times, belongs rather to the design of the house than of the garden, but one example is illustrated in Fig. 146 because of its intrinsically garden treatment. A stout trellis is set penthouse-fashion from the ridged screen wall (in the foregroimd of the picture) to the wall of the house, and offers hospitality to such creepers as are light enough not to interfere too much with the usefulness of the windows FIG. r46A.—WALL AT WROXALL ABBEY WITH SEMI-CIRCULAR 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 Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932; Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-. London : Published at the offices of Country Life . .. and by George Newnes . .. ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons


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