EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



stretch range after range of hills to the Welsh Mountains on our left front and those of Mountain 

 the English Lake District more to our right. Home. 



The names engraved on the mounting for the large telescope on the terrace will 

 give a more vivid idea of the range of view than any description. The more important 

 of these, reading from South to North, are : Warrington, Port Sunlight, New Brighton 

 (the tower at which place is visible by the naked eye in very clear weather), Snowdon, 

 Llandudno, Anglesey, Southport, Lytham, Douglas, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Wigtown, Preston, 

 Bowfell, Skiddaw, and Helvellyn. 



The country all round the Liverpool water-works, including the water-shed or col- 

 lecting ground for the reservoirs, is, of course, preserved by the Authorities in order to 

 insure that the supply shall remain uncontaminated, and thus there is no fear of this 

 wonderful prospect being deteriorated it could never be spoiled by the erection of large 

 works or other eye-sores. In addition to this, Sir William Lever has given a large 

 tract of ground sloping into the valley to his native town of Bolton for a public park, 

 and it is being left largely in a state of nature but for the formation of the necessary 

 roads and other features, such as refreshment rooms, essential to a park at such a dis- 

 tance from the town, so that it blends perfectly with its rugged surroundings. 



We may incidentally remark that there is a splendid electric tram service from 

 Bolton to within a short distance of the park gates, so that, notwithstanding that it is 

 six miles from that town, it is much appreciated and regularly used by a very large 

 number of holiday-makers, not only from Bolton itself, but also from Chorley and the 

 other surrounding Lancashire towns. 



To return to the consideration of the prospect from the new garden, we find the 

 view on the opposite or East side of the Cottage, though not so extensive, just as rugged 

 and romantic, for the steep fell-side slopes up in one unbroken precipitous sweep to the 

 summit of Rivington Pike, where it is crowned, with a square battlemented tower, which 

 forms a landmark for many miles round, and is wonderfully effective as viewed from 

 down in the valley in the neighbourhood of Horwich. The summit of the Pike and a 

 way up to it have also been dedicated to the public by the owner of the Cottage. 



From the foregoing description it will be seen that all the surroundings of the new 

 garden would be rugged and wild in the extreme, and that, if it were to harmonize with 

 them and fall properly into its place and express their spirit, it must not only receive 

 exceptional breadth of treatment at every point, but must, in its architectural details, 

 be free from the slightest suspicion of hyper-cultivation. How far this result has been 

 attained must be left very largely to the reader to judge from a comparison of the plan 

 with the accompanying photographs. As will be seen, the native stone has been quarried 

 and used everywhere, and this alone gives a pronounced local note which the heavy, 

 rugged style of building which has been adopted and the brown-coloured slates used, have 

 still further enhanced. 



The great need of this garden, high up on the treeless uplands, was, of course, shelter. 

 This has been obtained by means of the pergolas shown in more than one of the photo- 

 graphs, and by working in a little shelter for a seat wherever possible. Two of these 

 are shown in illustration No. 423, and a careful examination of the interior of the 

 pergola in illustration No. 420 will reveal one of several recesses in the back wall which 

 have been contrived out of waste space and roofed over with rough thick glass, as 

 otherwise they would have been very dark. Furnished with a few garden chairs and 

 surrounded with the greenery clothing the pergola, they make very cosy shelters from 

 which to look out between the rough-built stone pillars of the pergola at the endless 

 succession of hill after hill and pleasant valley between. 



Apart from these small contrivances, however, there is one portion of the grounds 

 expressly laid out to provide shelter. This is the small cloister-like enclosure to the 



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