EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



terrace is principally laid down in grass, to be used as tennis or croquet lawns. To 

 this part of the gardens a good deal of colour is added by the long flower border 

 under the terrace wall, and semicircular rose gardens at either end ; the latter are 

 backed by yew hedges with pillars and urns in front. The terrace wall, which divides 

 the more ornate portions of the grounds from the park, is, like the second wall, treated 

 in a simple manner, but in the central bay there is a parapet wall which rises 2 ft. 

 9 inches above the terrace level, with an imposing gateway leading down to the avenue. 



Leading from the Easterly half of the lawn, devoted to croquet, is a lily pond, 

 advantageously sunk some three feet lower than the lawn. 



Mention ought to be made of the reserve garden in the South-west corner, fronting 

 the stables, which is the original kitchen garden transformed into a walled-in retreat 

 of fruit-trees and flowers (111. No. 142). It is bordered on the South side by a long 

 bowling alley. Of this alley "two views are shown in illustrations Nos. 152 and 153, one 

 looking West towards the pergola and octagonal garden house, and the other Eastwards 

 towards the stables with the hedge and row of limes which form its South boundary. 



On both the East and West sides of the domain, the same feeling of breadth is 

 maintained by broad lawns and extended vistas, especially on the East, where the per- 

 vading keynote is struck by wide glades cut through the surrounding woodland, which 

 all radiate from the central dome of the house and are hedged in with tree box. 



Beyond the bounds of the scheme included in the plan there is a cricket ground, 

 and the wild garden shown in illustration No. 273. A feature is also to be made of the 

 water temple on the bank of the lake terminating the avenue ; the upper part being 

 arranged as a garden house and the under part as a boat-house. A somewhat novel 

 arrangement for the overflow is that it falls towards the garden by a semi-circular- 

 stepped cascade, and then returns in a culvert under the lake and into a stream in the 

 meadows below. 



A MOUNTAIN HOME. 



It is with especial pleasure that the Author approaches the task of describing the 

 grounds to Roynton Cottage, the mountain home of Sir William Lever, Bart., for, of all 

 the gardens laid out by him, there have been few which have provided such scope for 

 originality of treatment and, at the same time, such an incentive to meet the remark- 

 able opportunities presented by the nature of the site and its surroundings, an incentive 

 heightened and enlarged by the exceptionally sympathetic interest shown in the work 

 by his Client. 



Roynton Cottage, or " The Bungalow," as it is more often referred to locally, stands 

 high up on the open fell-side above Horwich, which, with its large railway engineering 

 works, lies down in the hollow below, some six miles from Sir William Lever's native 

 place of Bolton. 



As one approaches the site of the garden from the town, one climbs up and up by 

 a remarkably engineered road, laid out by the owner of the Cottage, with gorse and 

 brake rising up on the one side, and falling steeply away on the other in precipitous 

 banks, and with an ever-widening prospect spread out at one's feet ; the keen mountain 

 air in one's face or a breeze blowing straight from the Irish Sea, with nothing between it 

 and us to break its force or tone down its exhilarating freshness. 



Arrived at the Cottage, and standing on the top terrace by the telescope mount- 

 ing, almost exactly 1,000 feet above sea level, a wonderful prospect that could rarely be 

 equalled in these Islands for extent and variety lies before us. Immediately below, and 

 stretching away into the middle distance to the right, are the huge reservoirs which 

 supply Liverpool with water, and which possess, at least at this distance, all the aesthetic 

 qualities of large natural lakes, and, beyond these, for those whose sight is keen enough, 



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