THE DEANERY GARDENS, 



SONNING, BERKSHIRE. 



SON M\; i Mill a quiet village by the 

 Thames, ami has not, like some of its 

 neighbours, sacriAced its rural charm to its 

 popularity. The entire parish numl>ers but 

 450 souls, ami there are no building estates or 

 ed rows of villas. Any slight building develop- 

 ment that has taken place has Ixren reticent in 

 quantity ami quality, and here we And that admirable 

 example of the IX.-M type and quality ot" modern 

 house-building and garden-making which is our 

 theme. 



At the point where the high road coming from 

 I w \ford prepares to dip towards the river and to the 

 unfortunate iron substitute for the charming oak 

 bridge of our younger days, there lay, on the left-hand 



side, a garden and orchard encompassed by a 

 delightful old brick wall except where, sloping smith 

 westward, it nunhed with the churchyard. Here 

 the garden ground was jft. higher than the pathway 

 below, so that it needed no higher barrier than a 

 low wall, affording an open outlook on to the 

 interesting (iothic church and the finely-timbered 

 lands of Holme Park beyond. Here was a piece 

 of ground) somewhat neglected and decidedly circum- 

 scritxrd, but, by its slope, its situation and its 

 environment, full of latent potentiality to him who 

 had eyes to see and brain to plan. Such an eye 

 saw it and such a brain worked on it, and 

 the result is the "Deanery (iarden" of to-day. 

 This title is no modern misnomer, but springs 





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