174 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



boundary along the bank and will be reflected 

 pleasantly below, giving, moreover, convenient 

 points for bridging the stream. Bridges show in 

 common with other features of garden architecture 

 the necessity for some regularity of form to ensure 

 success, the absence of which sufficiently accounts 

 for the failure of the " rustic " types. In large 

 gardens the roofed " Palladian " bridge of stone 

 provides the opportunity for the most dignified 

 compositions, and even in smaller sites a roofed 

 bridge of timber (connected, perhaps, with a garden 

 house or water pavilion) combines an orthodox 

 treatment with real picturesqueness. The bridges 

 in figs. 49 and 50 show two simple designs, the 

 one a wooden bridge with stone abutments, the 

 other — wholly of stone — built in the mediaeval 

 manner. 



Of pools and fountains there are an enormous 

 number of historical and modern examples from 

 which to choose. The fish-pond near the house is, 

 in itself, a thing of beauty, as at Brickwall, Northiam 

 (fig. 48), but it monopolises a good deal of space. 

 The more favourite form of pool is either the 

 brimful type edged with a simple stone margin 



