. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Gardens fo?~ Small Country Houses. the garden. It is an odd commentary on the levels of roads before Macadam's day that the surface of this'old highway is quite twenty feet below the surrounding ground, and now forms the bottom of a woodland dell in Mr. Triggs' garden. Common lands interspersed with patches of woodland—all that now remain of the great forest of Woolmer—stretch away from the house for many miles. It is not too fanciful to guess that the garden of Little Boarhunt was the scene of a charming incident recorded by Gilbert White
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. Gardens fo?~ Small Country Houses. the garden. It is an odd commentary on the levels of roads before Macadam's day that the surface of this'old highway is quite twenty feet below the surrounding ground, and now forms the bottom of a woodland dell in Mr. Triggs' garden. Common lands interspersed with patches of woodland—all that now remain of the great forest of Woolmer—stretch away from the house for many miles. It is not too fanciful to guess that the garden of Little Boarhunt was the scene of a charming incident recorded by Gilbert White in the History of Selborne. " As Queen Anne was journey- ing on the Portsmouth road, she did not think the forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard. For she came out of the great road at Lippock, which is just by, and reposing herself on a bank smoothed for that purpose, saw with great complacency and satisfaction the whole herd of red deer brought by the keepers along the vale before her, consisting then of about five hundred ; Mr. Inigo Triggs has smoothed many banks in the making of his garden, but the red deer have given place to pigeons. As lately as June, 1910, Little Boarhunt was a small farmhouse of no especial merit, with a barn and yard, but no garden. All the building and the remodelling of the farm- yard was done in six months ; by the spring of 1911 the garden had grown up, and it now looks old-established. The note of gaiety is struck at the en- trance. Mr. Triggs has chosen to border the drive with broad beds full of herbaceous plants, instead of with the dull shrubs that too often find a place there. The farmyard to the south of the house was excavated to make a sunk rose garden. Its retaining walls of rough stone are brilliant with saxifrages, pinks and veronica. Herbaceous borders sepa- rate the surrounding paths from the low en- closing walls, which are carried up with square stone piers supporting timbers clothed with climbing roses. Par
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