. Gardens, their form and design. Gardens. ENTRANCES II surprise gardens should be carefully studied. The variety and dignity of these is a great adjunct to garden decoration. In an old Elizabethan garden the brick piers that support a handsome wrought-iron gateway are made interesting by having an heraldic device worked into. Fig. 8. them. In one case it is a St. Andrew's Cross (Fig. 8), the pattern of which being shown by leaving out bricks here and there to form the decoration. Upon the summit of the piers are quaint little curved roofs with a small ball upon each, which remind us in shape
. Gardens, their form and design. Gardens. ENTRANCES II surprise gardens should be carefully studied. The variety and dignity of these is a great adjunct to garden decoration. In an old Elizabethan garden the brick piers that support a handsome wrought-iron gateway are made interesting by having an heraldic device worked into. Fig. 8. them. In one case it is a St. Andrew's Cross (Fig. 8), the pattern of which being shown by leaving out bricks here and there to form the decoration. Upon the summit of the piers are quaint little curved roofs with a small ball upon each, which remind us in shape of the straw garden- hats that are preserved in some old families, and said to have been left as legacies by the maiden queen 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 Wolseley, Frances Garnet Wolseley, viscountess, 1872-. London, E. Arnold
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