PREFACE 



TO THE 



THIRD EDITION. 



WITHIN eighteen months of its first issue, the need has arisen to print a third edition 

 of " Gardens for Small Country Houses." This seems proof enough that the volume, 

 concerned chiefly as it is with problems of garden design, has filled a place, hitherto 

 empty, on the bookshelves of the garden-loving public. 



The opportunity afforded by the second edition was taken to expand the 

 introductory chapter by including in it some further examples of gardens, notable 

 either for the apt use which has been made of a hillside site, as at Markyate Cell 

 and Owlpen Manor, or for the possibilities of a walled enclosure, as at Edzell, or 

 of topiary work in a limited space, as at Bridge End, Saffron Walden. The 

 measured drawings of these gardens which are now reproduced w r ere not completed 

 in time for the first edition, but their inclusion (especially in the case of the 

 hillside examples) has added much to the practical value of the book. 



For this edition fewer alterations have been made, but some further notes 

 on plants for rock gardens have been added to Chapter XXI. 



G. J. 

 L. W. 



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