A good 

 sized 

 suburban 

 residence. 



EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



The area of the ground being restricted and the intention being to make the most 

 of it as a garden for flowers, shrubs and evergreen trees have been almost entirely 

 excluded. The holly hedges on the East and North boundaries, with the fine holly bushes 

 standing above the latter ; the group of cypress and yew trees on either side of the 

 summer-house, and the standard hollies, will provide sufficient greenery for the Winter 

 season. During the Spring months there is a wealth of bloom on flowering shrubs, 

 including lilac, mock orange, spiraea, deutzia, ribes, weigela, and many others. 





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FIG. 386. -GARDENS AT BERKAMPSTED DESIGNED FOR S. R. TIMSON, ESQ. 



Climbers are planted wherever there is wall space or treillage over which to ramble, 

 and the accommodation for them is quite exceptional for so small a garden. It is 

 expected that the interest from this class of plant alone will more than compensate 

 for any lack of shrubs. In addition to the climbers on the house, out- buildings and 

 treillage, single roses, such as carmine pillar, Austrian briars, etc., are planted at regular 

 intervals along the several borders and trained to larch posts some seven feet high. 



A LARGE TOWN GARDEN. 



As an example of a town garden, I do not think I can do better than to give a 

 description of the grounds attached to the town house of Sir William Lever, Bart., at 

 Hampstead, not only because the scheme was an entirely new one, completely replacing 

 the gardens which existed before, but also because the outstanding problem was one 

 which must necessarily occur again and again in this class of work. 



This problem consisted in the satisfaction of two main requirements. In the first 

 place, an adjacent knoll on Hampstead Heath overlooked the whole of the grounds in 

 such a manner as to make any sort of a fete or garden party quite out of the question 

 in such a populous district unless something was done to give shelter and seclusion, and, 

 secondly, this seclusion must be obtained without blocking out the unique view over 



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