. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. The Pergola. i8= Guthrie, with a surrounding pergola following the same plan (Fig. 266). The piers are circular in section, of a Ught-coloured brick, and stand upon a flagged platform. The whole is planted with vines, the most beautiful of all pergola plants. Brick piers at the ends, with wooden ones between, and a roofing of treUis over a brick pavement, form a pergola at Sandhouse, Sandhills, Witley (Fig. 267), from the design of Mr. F. W. Troup. This pergola is unusually high in proportion to its width. It is in general more agreeable t
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. The Pergola. i8= Guthrie, with a surrounding pergola following the same plan (Fig. 266). The piers are circular in section, of a Ught-coloured brick, and stand upon a flagged platform. The whole is planted with vines, the most beautiful of all pergola plants. Brick piers at the ends, with wooden ones between, and a roofing of treUis over a brick pavement, form a pergola at Sandhouse, Sandhills, Witley (Fig. 267), from the design of Mr. F. W. Troup. This pergola is unusually high in proportion to its width. It is in general more agreeable to let the width across the path be greater than the height, as in the example by Mr. Walter Cave at Ewelme Down, where .some specimens of topiary work in tubs are placed at the ends of paths (Fig. 268).. FIG. 263.—PIERS OF TILES, WIDE-JOINTED. A pergola of open structure by Mr. J. P. White at Garston Park gives partial shelter to a garden door. Under it is a wide, flagged terrace, slightly sloping away from the house to throw off rain, the joints near the planted piers being left open for the benefit of the climbers. Against the house is an interesting reproduction of the old-fashioned perspective treillage (Fig. 269). For a general guide as to dimensions, it may be taken that the piers may be anything from seven feet two inches to eight feet out of the ground, eight feet to nine feet apart across the paths, and nine feet to twelve feet apart in the length of. 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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