. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Introduction. xlvii. In cases where a carriage-waj^ is not an absolute necessity, the substitution of a flagged pathway is a great gain to the restfulness and beauty of the garden. A beautiful treatment of this kind is shown by Fig. xl., the entrance to Mr. Berwick's charming home in Sussex, where a flagged path passes through the quiet, unbroken green of well-kept grass. But there are many places where a means of driving to the door is required. Here the difficulty arises, in the case of quite a small house, of the disproportion between t
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Introduction. xlvii. In cases where a carriage-waj^ is not an absolute necessity, the substitution of a flagged pathway is a great gain to the restfulness and beauty of the garden. A beautiful treatment of this kind is shown by Fig. xl., the entrance to Mr. Berwick's charming home in Sussex, where a flagged path passes through the quiet, unbroken green of well-kept grass. But there are many places where a means of driving to the door is required. Here the difficulty arises, in the case of quite a small house, of the disproportion between the space required for turning a motor or a pair-horsed carriage and the size of the house-front. A simple square fore- court always looks well as in Fig. xxxix., a design by Mr. Leopold S. Cole. The same kind of treatment, but with the angles rounded, is shown at Fig. xli., by jMr. Alick. i'lG, XXXIX.—TKE.\TMEXT FOR THE FORECOURT OF A S1L\LL COTTAGE. Horsnell. But in both these examples the expanse of gravel is rather large, nearly double the area of the block-plan of the house itself. Where the coaclvhouse or garage stands beyond the house, and more or less parallel with the line of the main ridge, this difficulty may be o\'ercome by some such arrangement as that sh(3wn on the plan Fig. xlii., which lea\-es only the width of a road at the front door. It is done by making a third piece of road, branching symmetrically with that to the carriage-house, and stopping short, as to its full width, ^^'hen length enough has been gi\-en, and ending either in a narrower garden path or some small special garden. The carriage or motor Avould go for\\-ard, as sho\\-n by the single dotted line, ^^•ould then back for a short distance as shoA^r by the double dotted line, and then again go 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 re
Size: 2053px × 1217px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectgardens, bookyear1920
