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beautiful and well-proportioned in themselves can 

 stand almost anywhere in the garden design, and will 

 invariably increase the effect. Certainly they no- 

 where help the grouping so much as when they 

 stand comparatively near the building and throw 

 their shade across the forecourt, and the position of 

 a good tree is often sufficient reason to plan the 

 entrance courtyard so that its stem may be included 

 within the boundaries. 



It must be our aim, then, to blend the house, 

 forecourt, and the surrounding trees into one satis- 

 fying picture, restrained in colour, but striking and 

 impressive in form. And how many compositions 

 are there which this enticing subject will suggest ! 

 Here, we may see a timbered house of low pro- 

 portions, with steep pitched roofs of tile and soaring 

 chimney-stacks, combined with close-cut hedges of 

 yew, which themselves provide a deep green 

 entrance arch or sturdy piers with curiously clipped 

 finials. There, a stone manor-house worthy of 

 Inigo Jones, its orderly ranks of windows ranged 

 on either side of the doorway, and its hipped roof 

 set above a bold cornice, with its forecourt enclosed 

 by high stone walls, well coped and chased with 



