26 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



the unharmonious or ineffective background which 

 the house itself supplies, and some considerable 

 architectural treatment of garden wall, arcade, 

 or other buildings is necessary to restore the 

 lost balance. The defect can be avoided by fore- 

 thought where a new building is concerned, but 

 when encountered in the case of existing buildings, 

 it must be put right before anything else is done. 

 For instance, we may find a beautiful lawn from 

 which a fine prospect is obtained towards the south. 

 Its boundaries west and east may be quite satis- 

 factory, marked, let us suppose, by lofty trees. To 

 the north, however, where the house lies, it has no 

 regularity, the building is high with no length to 

 form a fitting frame to the broad sweep of the turf ; 

 it is, moreover, placed awkwardly at one side, and 

 the whole picture is marred. In this case it is 

 necessary to make good with garden architecture 

 the faulty background provided by the house. 

 The straight walk between the building and the 

 turf must be made the full length of the lawn. 

 Pavilions or garden-houses might be built at each 

 end, and these connected as far as the house by walls, 

 pleasantly treated with brick and stone, or by an 



