EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



form part of the Shrublands scheme, thus creating a permanent business centre. Re- A larger 

 ference to the plan (111. No. 383) will show how this has been effected to the North of detached 

 the house, and in such a manner as to leave the West, South and East fronts for the residence. 

 use of the residents. 



This necessity for devoting a part of the grounds to the needs of the business of 

 course still further curtailed the area available for the grounds, but, by making the very 

 most of the remaining space, quite a self-contained series of pleasaunces has been contrived. 

 Entering from the highway by the gate and steps shown in illustration No. 73, we come 

 first of all to the forecourt surrounded by clipped hedges, and with the path from the gate 

 to the porch crossing it. This path is flagged in the centre and the remaining space on 

 either side paved with cobbles, thus combining the rusticity of the latter method with 

 the practical advantages of the former. It is crossed by another walk, which, to the 



FIG. 384. VIEW FROM THE LAWN, SHRUBLANDS, WINDERMERE. 



left, leads through an arch in the clipped hedge to the business entrance on the North 

 side of the main block of buildings, while, to the right, it passes between other hedges 

 to the pleasure grounds proper. , These, on the South front of the house, are constructed 

 in three levels, the two upper being terraces one above the other, and the lowest a 

 tennis lawn. Comparison of the plan of these gardens with illustration No. 384 will 

 explain how this is done more clearly than any description possibly could, and the 

 photograph will further show how the local character is expressed in the building, and 

 also the architectural adjuncts of the garden, such as the walls, steps and pergola columns. 

 They are all built from the rock quarried on the site, which in itself is almost enough 

 to ensure this. Sufficient rock is still left, however, to be introduced into the garden 

 scheme as an ornamental feature, and to grow Alpine and other rock plants on in the 

 same way as in the garden first described. 



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