Classic 

 Renais- 

 sance 

 domain. 



EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



of the alterations is that the gardens are now quite screened from the carriage drive, 

 leaving the whole of the ground on three sides of the house free for their extension. 



To make a success of this scheme, length and breadth of line, and plain unbroken 

 surfaces were much more necessary than wealth of detail, and it is upon this bold 

 simplicity that the composition depends. The several levels suggested differing garden 

 departments, which, though intimately connected and part of one broad design, are 

 nevertheless separate enclosures ; each portion having its own special treatment and 

 its own individual interest. 



The lay-out of the South front and the extended terrace base, with its pavilions 

 at each end, are intended to secure the proper connection which should exist between 

 the house and garden. How far this merging of one part into another is likely to be 

 realized is shown by the perspective view (111. No. 415). Those versed in garden 



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FIG. 417. THE AVIARY, FOOTS CRAY PLACE. 



design can picture for themselves the effect of a view from instead of toward the house, 

 with the terracing as a foreground to the true English park, and the wide double avenue 

 uniting the lake and its classic pavilion with the formal garden. 



The central or balustraded part of the first terrace, which is old, and not supported 

 on a sufficiently deep wall for the execution of the new scheme has been underpinned, 

 the centre being converted into a long alcove with a circular bay, which gives the 

 appearance of an overhanging garden. This is to be paved with flags of two colours 

 arranged to a pattern, the balustraded wall being ornamented with lead figures, while 

 the flat-topped supporting buttresses arranged at intervals will be finished with lead 

 urns. The wall dividing the second and third terraces is treated in a simple manner, 

 the coping in the former case rising only eighteen inches above the grass ; this second 



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