EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



Such pronounced curves as these, while they would be absurd on a gently undulating 

 site, are perfectly right, and, in fact, pleasing when the reason and necessity for them 

 are so apparent, as in the present instance. There is all the difference in the world 

 between the two cases, in the one they are irritating, while in the other they emphasize 

 the most marked characteristic of the site, which fact alone is sufficient justification for 

 their employment. 



Along the top of the plan is indicated a public footpath skirting the gardens. This is 

 practically level for the distance shown, and is higher than any portion of the grounds 

 themselves, so much so that a retaining wall with strong buttresses was necessary to the 

 kitchen garden, and, in passing along it, one overlooks the roofs of the stable block. 

 This made it very difficult to obtain any privacy, which has nevertheless been quite 



FIG. 4OI. 



adequately attained by planting large conifers inside the fence. The general slope is 

 from this fence across to the Western corner by the tennis lawn, the situation of which 

 was dictated by a slightly less steep place which made its formation possible. 



When the Writer was first called in to advise on the reconstruction of the garden 

 some eighteen years ago, the grounds were about half their present size, all that portion 

 North of a line connecting the northernmost corner of the tennis lawn with the potting 

 shed having been made since. The kitchen garden occupied the piece of ground between 

 the numbers 10 and 12 on the plan, and the remainder contained few suggestions of 

 ordered design. Since the accompanying plan was prepared, a large billiard-room has 

 been built to the North-east of the carriage turn, somewhat altering its character. Large 

 oaks and conifers not only existed in the garden but in the neighbouring grounds, and 

 these have been incorporated in the new plantations. 



A Lake 

 District 



garden. 



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