Pictures from Living-Rooms 



G. LI. Morris's scheme for a small L-shaped garden, 

 such as is sometimes found in a suburb when an 

 enthusiastic gardener secures the lower half of his 

 neighbour's plot. He has secured a notable diversity 

 of views. From the drawing-room garden door there 

 is a definite picture across the rose garden and sunk 

 lawn to the herb garden. From the drawing-room the 

 near pergola invites a walk along the paved path to 

 another pergola finishing in an arbour. The fruit and 

 vegetable garden in the short arm of the L is cut off 

 by a hedge, in the curved bays of which there are 

 archways from herb garden to orchard and from sunk 

 lawn to kitchen beds. Other charming little features 

 are the narrow flower garden to the south of the house, 

 and the long flower border appropriately stretching 

 from the tradesmen's entrance to the kitchen garden. 



The almost square garden of about a third of an 

 acre was designed by Mr. K. Dalgliesh and shows the 

 tennis-lawn rightly placed north and south. Here 

 again a picture is seen from each of the living-rooms, 

 in spite of the fact that the lawn takes up so much 

 space that other features have to be compressed. 



The triangular site of about half an acre set at the 

 junction of two roads gave ample opportunity for 

 ingenious contrivance. The plan on page 22 by 

 Mr. A. Troyte Griffith shows a reasonable use 

 of that overdone feature, the pergola, a good aid 

 to garden design if sensibly placed, but this is not 

 often. Here it leads from the corner of the terrace to 

 a garden house, and usefully divides the tennis-lawn 

 from the flower garden. Miss Isobel Harding 's design 

 (p. 32) is a little disappointing, for the very reason that 



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