6o GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



spaced widely apart in a deep grass border on either 

 side. Further still some cut squares of yew, holly, 

 or box, some stone piers and perhaps an archway of 

 stone or brick will mark an added architectural 

 character up to the point at which will rise the roofs 

 of the house itself. All the materials are here for 

 a fine picture, which can be varied indefinitely in its 

 composition — an open country lending itself to large 

 effects and enclosed areas or heavily timbered estates 

 to well-defined and sheltered roadways. When all 

 is said a line of trees remains the ideal condition for 

 the approach to the house ; bordering the simplest 

 roadway they bestow upon it a quality and distinction 

 obtainable in no other way, and even in winter such 

 trees as stand by the carriage-way to Little Lodge, 

 Newick (fig. i6), invest the cottage with much of 

 their own beauty. 



Courtyards 



An enclosed space may by its fashioning be 

 the pleasantest place on earth ; it may also be the 

 dreariest. The courtyard of the manor-house, the 

 college quadrangle, or the cathedral cloister, the 

 Italian cor tile and the Spanish pateo^ — all these are 



