. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. The Treatment of Small Sites. 73 land " has been passed we reach the garden proper, and notice on the left a pretty masonry fountain, illustrated in Fig. go. The setting-out of the rest of the garden is sufficiently indicated by the general plan (Fig. 89). A site almost square and flat without natural features offers a blank cheque in the matter of design. In Fig. 93 is illustrated such a garden laid out at Dorchester, Dorset, by Mr. Morley Horder, the architect of the house. It shows a useful division of the space into flower and kit
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. The Treatment of Small Sites. 73 land " has been passed we reach the garden proper, and notice on the left a pretty masonry fountain, illustrated in Fig. go. The setting-out of the rest of the garden is sufficiently indicated by the general plan (Fig. 89). A site almost square and flat without natural features offers a blank cheque in the matter of design. In Fig. 93 is illustrated such a garden laid out at Dorchester, Dorset, by Mr. Morley Horder, the architect of the house. It shows a useful division of the space into flower and kitchen gardens. As Herman wrote in his Vulgaria, " the knotte garden serveth for pleasure, the potte garden for ; Importance is given to the scheme by the wall in alternate- bays, which divides the two main divisions and ties them both to the house. A photo- graph of a similar wall in another garden is reproduced in Chapter X. The two long pergolas which reach out from the house southwards serve a like purpose. A word must also be written about the very useful plan of a narrow suburban garden site shown in Fig. 95, and by sketch in Fig. 94. The ground treated measures only fifty by . :|;wo hundred and ten feet. The garden on the entrance side is happily managed. It is divided by a tall yew hedge running east and west, so that a pretty little square garden, walled on the north and west sides, is provided for the sole pleasure of the servants. The entrance court adjoining it is left perfectly simple with grass margins to the paved walk. Flowers are con- centrated on the low terrace, which is reached from the. loggia. A hedge divides it from the tennis lawn, which is surrounded by hme trees, presently to be pleached. The success of the scheme is the result in no small measure of not attempting too much, which is the usual fault in very limited gardens. So-oL. FIG. 95.—GOOD ARRANGEMENT OF NARROW Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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