ii6 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



(fig. 4), garden houses, statuary, even balustrades 

 and steps, look isolated and artificial unless one can 

 lead up to them with a square of paving or a stone 

 path. Pools with paved margins, seats with stone 

 platforms, gateways with broad stone thresholds all 

 look the better for its ministration. But chiefly it 

 is valuable against the house itself, for a stretch of 

 paving, as at Dalingridge (fig. 10) or West Wittering 

 (fig. 56), adds immensely to the restfulness and 

 dignity of the building. Spaces between projecting 

 wings, verandahs, loggias, and other recesses or 

 specially defined areas, call for a paved floor, and 

 are improved if the stone is extended beyond them 

 to link them with the garden itself. Particularly is 

 paving adapted to the enclosed garden, the small 

 quadrangle, cloistered court, or to the confined 

 garden of the town house, where both grass and 

 flowers are difficult to rear. In such enclosures the 

 stone path will be the basis of the design, and in its 

 shape and arrangement will lie the interest and charm 

 of the whole idea. It is a subject that allows of 

 infinite elaboration, and the designer need have no 

 fear of exhausting the devices to which it lends itself, 

 alone or in combination with other features. 



