The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois . A Late Tudor Garden Mildred W. WrightE. M. Fickett Seventy-eight The 1917 Reptonian Garden Design Gertrude Sawyer J. L. Thomas AN ELIZABETHAN GARDEN If one should visit Montacute House he ought not neglect a visit toBrympton House, delightfully situated near by in the hills at Yeovil. Dat-ing from the 15th century, its stately halls and terraces face out upon anopen stretch of country to the south. From the east end of this terrace weplace a sup
The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois . A Late Tudor Garden Mildred W. WrightE. M. Fickett Seventy-eight The 1917 Reptonian Garden Design Gertrude Sawyer J. L. Thomas AN ELIZABETHAN GARDEN If one should visit Montacute House he ought not neglect a visit toBrympton House, delightfully situated near by in the hills at Yeovil. Dat-ing from the 15th century, its stately halls and terraces face out upon anopen stretch of country to the south. From the east end of this terrace weplace a supposititional gate leading to the nosegay gardens herein por-trayed. Typically Elizabethan, they provide a banquet house, a dovecote,sundial, and fountains. The question of descent from the terrace to thegarden level, a height of about five feet, was left to the discretion of thestudent, as well as the relative elevations within the garden itself, whichcovers an area of 60 feet by 175 feet. The difference in treatment is easilyseen, in that Mr. Thomas chose to place his garden on one level below theterrace, while Miss Sawyer varied her plan by a
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