. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Balustrades and Walls. 105 contemplated lends changefulness to variety of growth. Very often the designer of a small garden is faced by the difficulty of giving it privacy, and shrinks from the uninteresting solution of building a plain high wall. In such a case the two schemes indicated in Figs. 138 and 139 suggest happy alternati^'es, the former of which appears in a modified form in the picture (Fig. 68) of Mr. Inigo Triggs' own garden at Liphook. It shows a stone wall eighteen inches thick, and it is desirable, where choice is possible, to build
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Balustrades and Walls. 105 contemplated lends changefulness to variety of growth. Very often the designer of a small garden is faced by the difficulty of giving it privacy, and shrinks from the uninteresting solution of building a plain high wall. In such a case the two schemes indicated in Figs. 138 and 139 suggest happy alternati^'es, the former of which appears in a modified form in the picture (Fig. 68) of Mr. Inigo Triggs' own garden at Liphook. It shows a stone wall eighteen inches thick, and it is desirable, where choice is possible, to build it of sandstone in order that it may weather to a pleasant colour. This type of garden masonry looks best when the joints are well raked out, so that each individual stone may show distinctly. The piers are spaced ten feet apart, and are connected by curves. Rough beams about four inches square, with cross-pieces about two inches square, are supported on the piers, and roses and other creeping plants are trained to intertwine amid the woodwork. In Fig. 139 a similar arrangement is shown for brick â 'V ? V iTj^af ⢠â as " â â ...'* â 'T >- > ;.»v, vf ^fftlif^t^'F^T?'''' // \^i-. V ^_ 1^ ,>^. -»*W':i^-».V c'**^' FIG. 138.âSTONE WITH TIMBERED PIERS. FIG. I39.âTHE S.\ME IN BRICK WITH FLOWER BOXES. walls, with this interesting difference : the piers for a distance of two feet from the top and the boxes at their sides are of four and a-half inch brickwork filled with earth. In the illustration these receptacles are shown in broken section rather than with appropriate plants growing, in order that the method of construction may be clear. Each should be drained with a small pipe about one inch in diameter, which will throw the drainage-water clear of the wall on its far side. The spacing of the piers in this case, as in the last, should be about ten feet, and a good height for either type is eight feet, the walls thus being about five feet. Where
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