TERRACES AND TERRACE GARDENS. 



path with grass at either side with or without flower-beds in the grass, or there may 

 be a flower border with a stone edging on that side of the paved path nearest the house 

 and grass on the other side. A still freer treatment would be obtained by having a 

 gravelled path with a row of flags down the middle, making a line of paving about 

 two feet six inches broad, or a similar strip of flags might be laid with cobble paving 

 on either side. Such arrangements open the way for harmonious colour schemes where 

 these would be in keeping with the architecture ; for instance, in a South Cumberland 

 garden, one might combine the rich red St. Bees sandstone with the blue-grey local cobble 

 paving, and in other districts one may have cobbles and brick, cobbles and stone, or 

 two colours of slate, blue-black and green, or two shades of green. 



The formation of flower gardens and lawns is dealt with elsewhere and it is only Flower beds 

 necessary to deal with their application to the terrace scheme. Generally speaking, beds on the 



terrace. 



FIG. 128. TERRACED EFFECT BY LOWERING GROUND AT LEES COURT, FAVERSHAM. 



of a definite panel design and divided by narrow walks of a medium width of two feet 

 six inches are often better than those cut out of grass. Where grass is preferred as a 

 background, the widths between the beds should be greater than for gravel or paving 

 as narrow strips of grass are constantly losing their shape and level appearance. The 

 proportion between grass walks and borders will need arranging very carefully, and one 

 or the other should predominate, and the others be made subservient to it in the scheme 

 of decoration, or the result will suggest a muddle. 



Tennis and croquet lawns and bowling alleys, the sizes and practical formation Games 

 of which are dealt with in Chapter IX., in their demand for level unbroken stretches lawns on 

 of greensward, are peculiarly suited to the terrace scheme. Their inclusion has also the terrace. 

 the advantage of placing them near to the house, and in those numerous instances 

 where a narrower higher terrace overlooks the broader one on which the game is played, 



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