A HOUSE AND GARDEN IN POLAND 



means of realising unexpected effects, and like the grain of sand in the oyster, 

 form the nucleus for what may at last become a pearl. As an example of this 

 may be instanced the hothouse shown on the garden plan illustrated, a building 

 of solid structure which could not be easily removed. Other and more vital 

 considerations led to the placing of the new house at an angle which bears no 

 definite relation to this building, and as the lines of the new garden plan 

 necessarily followed those of the house, the hothouse seemed to become a 

 discordant element in the scheme. A reference to the plan will show how, by 

 the introduction of diagonal paths which follow the lines of the hothouse, 

 this building is brought into harmony with the scheme, and the sketch 

 of this portion of the garden shows that thus, from a given point of view, one 

 may look along the lines of three radiating vistas a special garden effect which 

 resulted from the necessity for incorporating the hothouse in the garden scheme. 



An important feature in this garden is the circular drive to the north of 

 the house where the horses may be exercised, and viewed from the house or 

 from the seats in the recess which forms the terminal feature to the main 

 drive vista. 



One of the principal factors which have governed the choice of the 

 position for the house as well as the main lines of the garden has been the 

 relation of both to existing old trees, so that they should so group themselves 

 round the building and form points of interest in the garden so as to make it 

 appear that the trees were a part of the general scheme. 



So too the existing tea-house, by the extension of its verandah and the 

 introduction of a little paved court in front of this becomes a terminal feature 

 to one of the main vistas, and is brought into pleasant relations with the rose 

 garden. 



It will be noticed that this garden plan chiefly extends to the east of the 

 house. This is owing to the fact that it is in this direction that the slope of 

 the ground, which falls towards the lake to the south, is less steep. On the 

 south and west of the house the ground falls rapidly, and here the principal 

 feature is a pergola cut in the hillside and open on one side to the lake, the 

 other being formed by a retaining-wall. This follows the natural lines ot 

 the hillside round the south and west sides of the house, and connects 

 the terrace below the lawn with a kitchen garden formed on the west side of 

 the house. In this part of the garden plan is also included a broad flight of 

 steps which forms a descent from the centre of the lower terrace of the house 

 to the lake and boathouse. 



Amongst other features of the garden scheme may be noted the maze, 

 which occupies an irregular piece of ground, and the long flower garden 

 adjoining this to the north. 



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