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lor a garden-room comfortably arranged as a rotrcat from all weathers. The garden-houses overlook 

 what was originally an entrance forecourt, and our illustration shows a part of the well-proportioned wall 

 enclosing the courtyard. It is broken at intervals by small pavilions of clustered Doric columns, around 

 which the roses grow in luxuriant profusion. At Kind s \\Vston in Gloucestershire (Fig. 107) the garden-house 

 overlooks a small enclosure and stew-pond surrounded by a high wall and a wealth of lovely flowers. It 

 was probably intended to be used as a fishing Iodide, like the delightful little lodge designed by IIHLJO (ones 

 for Bccket Park, near Shrivenham. The garden-house at Apethorpe belongs to a more o|&amp;gt;en type. It 

 overlooks the rose garden and a circular lily pool. Apethorpe still retains some of its old-world 

 characteristics, including a very tine yew hedge and wonderful lawns. 



An immense variety of garden-houses are to be found in the engravings of Kip, Badeslade, Adkvns, 

 Dugdale, Swit/.er and other engravers ot the eighteenth century. In these realistic bird s-eye views of 

 country seats, with their avenues, courtyards and trim parterres, we may find an immense variety of 

 garden-houses ; but perhaps the quaintest of all are those in Loggan s views of the colleges of Oxford 

 and Cambridge. A word as to the materials for building a summer-house. Best of all is hand-made brick, 

 especially the small bricks of a warm tone, which seem to harmonise better than any other material with 

 the verdure of grass and trees. In stone districts a warm yellow stone is very suitable. White stone 

 should be avoided it looks hard and uninteresting. The covering should, if possible, be of stone slates, 

 each course diminishing as it gets near the apex of the roof. Concrete is a material that might be used 

 for garden-houses if designed by a skilled hand ; the surlace may be finished with tine rough-cast, and 

 the walls should be coloured, as cement takes many years to tone down. Where rough-cast is used the 

 surface should be coloured a warm yellow or, as an alternative, white, mixed with a good proportion ot 

 carmine, imparting a rosy tone that is particularly effective in a garden. In a chalk district this material 

 mixed with flint might be used, especially in a round garden-house. That chalk is durable and weather 

 proof is proved by many old buildings, such as the church at Stoke L oges, where chalk walK have 

 withstood the weather for at least three centuries. The one objection to chalk is its glaring whiteik&amp;gt;s, 

 but this might be overcome by very broad overhanging eaves. Treillage is a material which we find 

 largely used in French gardens; the graceful Temple d Amour at Chantilly or the little pavilions at 

 Bagatelle or Versailles show how well the material may be used ; but in England a garden-house is ^encrally 

 needed to withstand the weather, and is therefore required to be of a more solid material. The cheapest 

 forms of garden-houses are those of wood, and if well designed and harmoniously coloured in browns and 

 greens without too much white, such a form of garden-house has much to commend it. 



I npainted elm boarding is also a suitable material ; left to itself it turns a delightful colour. The 

 modern cra/.e for painting all garden woodwork and furniture white tends to give far too .^reat a contrast 

 and to break the harmony of colouring that should always exist between the works of Nature and those 

 of man. 1 1. Ixic.o TKK.I.S. 



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