. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. FIG. 145.—CONCRETE WALLS AT FIG. 146.—WALL MASKING KITCHEN QUARTERS. 1789 is on a stone of the wall, his authorship must be doubted. The writer of this has seen a serpentine wall at a Suffolk house of late in the eighteenth century. A good modern example, a single brick thick, designed by Mr. F. W. Troup, is illustrated in Small Co u 111 r y Ho-iises of To-day. Built with the same purpose as a serpentine wall, , to give somewhat sheltered bays for fruit, is the straight wall with square breaks at a Buck- inghamshire house designed by Mr
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. FIG. 145.—CONCRETE WALLS AT FIG. 146.—WALL MASKING KITCHEN QUARTERS. 1789 is on a stone of the wall, his authorship must be doubted. The writer of this has seen a serpentine wall at a Suffolk house of late in the eighteenth century. A good modern example, a single brick thick, designed by Mr. F. W. Troup, is illustrated in Small Co u 111 r y Ho-iises of To-day. Built with the same purpose as a serpentine wall, , to give somewhat sheltered bays for fruit, is the straight wall with square breaks at a Buck- inghamshire house designed by Mr. P. Morley Horder. It is the better, both prac- tically and in appear- ance, for its tiled ridge. In districts where both stone and brick are more costly than concrete, the latter material is useful for garden walls. In Fig. 145 is illustrated a concrete wall of very good appearance, designed by Sir E. Tutyens for the gardens of Lambay Castle. The terminal posts are given almost a Doric character by the marks left by the wood boxing set up temporarily, into which the half-Hquid. 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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