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The mode of arrangement which I have found most satis- 

 factory under such circumstances is to give great prominence 

 to grass in a garden and by banks of varied form and height 

 to secure some degree of diversity, obtaining shelter also 

 by depressing certain parts of the lawn and throwing these 

 into the shape of a sunk panel. Fig. 70 will more fully 

 explain my meaning, this being the plan of a portion of the 

 garden to be attached to a villa at Birkdale, near South- 

 port. The land is close to the seashore, and is composed 

 entirely of sand. The place is open to the full violence of the 

 northwesterly gales. 



In the plan, i is the house, 2 the house yard, 3 the stables 

 and similar outbuildings, 4 a part of the stable yard. There 

 is a descending terrace bank two feet deep at 5, vases on 

 pedestals at 6, another descending grass bank four feet deep 

 at 8, a sunk level lawn which might have a few flower beds 

 upon it or be used as a bowling green at 9, a strong close 

 wooden fence along the seashore at 10, and a path to the 

 seashore which would be common to this house and to a 

 contiguous villa at 11, the path being kept low where it 

 passes the pleasure garden. The dotted line 7 merely shows 

 the edge of the bank whence the ground drops rapidly to the 

 shore. 



Such peculiarities as the altered surface of the ground will 

 present may be better understood from the section, fig. 71, 

 which is to the same scale (vertical and horizontal) as the 

 plan and is made from the line A to B on the latter. By 

 this it will be seen that the ground on the south or entrance 

 front of the house is to be five feet below the ground imme- 

 diately north of the house. This is purposely designed to act 

 in connection with the house, outbuildings, and walls from 

 them as a shelter to the south garden. And as the sand is so 

 easily and inexpensively removed almost anything may be 



