Placing the Pergola 



the lawn is intended to be sunk to the depth of about 

 2 feet, in which case steps would have to be introduced 

 in places other than those shown. The effect of this 

 would be to create a garden lacking the essential 

 repose, as, obviously, if the principal entrance to the 

 garden was by the central steps, one would have to 

 go down steps to the lawn, and up a similar number of 

 steps to get off the lawn again. 



Mr. Lawrence Weaver, commenting on this design 

 in The Garden, admirably summed up its failings in 

 the following words : 



' ' He has utilized the site by making a feature of the 

 terrace, but does not seem to have considered the 

 various parts of the garden in relation to the garden 

 doors of the house. He has ventured upon that very 

 difficult problem the design of a rock garden, and it 

 can scarcely be said with any great success. In a 

 general way it is better not to attempt to combine rock- 

 work with formal elements like a Rose parterre, as in 

 this case. Rockwork is much better treated as an 

 independent item, and altogether screened from the 

 more regular features of the garden. The placing 

 of the Rose pergola has also proved somewhat of a 

 snare. It has its value in dividing the Rose garden 

 from the herbaceous garden, but it is placed over a 

 path which does not lead to anywhere in particular. 

 The pergola should always be regarded as a connect- 

 ing-link between two definite parts of the garden, and 

 not as a thing which is justified in its own right 

 wherever it may be put/' 



Another simple but very effective design was the 

 one sent in by Miss Norah Geddes. Perhaps in 



