. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Gardens J or Small Country Houses. 27 CHAPTER IV.—WESTBROOK, GODALMING. Situation—Special Compartments—Careful Planting Sclieme—Winter Garden—Covered Seats—Floiver Border Facing North. WHEN an architect of ripe experience and keen sensibility plans a house and garden for his own liome, one may look for something more than usually interesting, and in Westbrook one is not disappointed. The house, built by Mr. Thackeray Turner of the hard local sandstone, stands on a plateau of high ground to the west of Godalming ; the deep \'alley of the river Wey is
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Gardens J or Small Country Houses. 27 CHAPTER IV.—WESTBROOK, GODALMING. Situation—Special Compartments—Careful Planting Sclieme—Winter Garden—Covered Seats—Floiver Border Facing North. WHEN an architect of ripe experience and keen sensibility plans a house and garden for his own liome, one may look for something more than usually interesting, and in Westbrook one is not disappointed. The house, built by Mr. Thackeray Turner of the hard local sandstone, stands on a plateau of high ground to the west of Godalming ; the deep \'alley of the river Wey is to the north and the valley of a tributary stream a little way to the south. The upper trees of a steep hanger on the northern side rise protectingi}', and on all the outskirts there are also trees, with here and there a distant view between their masses. The garden fronts are nearly south and west. On the south side a low wall encloses a paved space |with beds and border of flowers, an eastward flight of steps leading down to further flower-borders. Straight in front is a wide, quiet lawn, bounded on the right by a long paved path shaded by pleached limes. The garden to the west of the house abounds in charming surprises. Its various subdivisions are linked together in a simple general design. Each section shows soiue distinct way of making a garden picture, and each entices onwards to the next by the charm of mystery and the stimulus of pleasant anticipation of something stfll better to follow. The main design has a walling of yew hedges, now, after a growth of thirteen years, approaching maturity. Within their several compartments are a small sunk garden of summer flowers, a rose garden and one for late autumn. Between these, crossing and forming in both directions the axis of the design, are twelve-foot-wide grass paths with flower-borders on either hand ; the bright blossom showing finely against the background of dark yew. Turning ^j^ 32.—the pleached lime
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