. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. i68 Gardens J or Small Country Houses. memorials of a grandiose worid which has not survived the clash of modern life may be well enough in a great English garden. For the smaller schemes of design, for which we are now considering the appropriate type of ornament, they are less fitted than a well-head built of brick or stone. It is, however, in their placing that most care is needed. The example at Sutton Courtenay (Fig. 238) stands well on its broad spread of paving, but very often one is seen set down on a grass plat without any suitable base, an
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. i68 Gardens J or Small Country Houses. memorials of a grandiose worid which has not survived the clash of modern life may be well enough in a great English garden. For the smaller schemes of design, for which we are now considering the appropriate type of ornament, they are less fitted than a well-head built of brick or stone. It is, however, in their placing that most care is needed. The example at Sutton Courtenay (Fig. 238) stands well on its broad spread of paving, but very often one is seen set down on a grass plat without any suitable base, and looking lonely and useless. There is no reason why a well-head should not be used as a dipping-well or fitted with a jet and used for a fountain in a pool. Such a use renews its connection with water, but to employ it as a flower-pot is an indiscretion. Not to emploj^ it at all, but to regard it merely as an ornament, seems justified only when it has marked merits as a piece of sculpture. The fact remains that Italian well-heads are appropriate in Itah' and sometimes look awkward in an English garden, especially when they are not used in connection with a well, which rarely exists in a place where decorative emphasis is possible or desirable. Figures 236, 237 and 239 are concerned with the more typical English water engine, the pump. In the eighteenth century. 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, Country Life [etc. ]; New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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