Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



FIG. 6. PLANTING PLAN 



AT VIEW POINTS "c" (SEE FIG. 7), 

 AND " E " (SEE FIG. 8). 



from the path above 

 and the grass below. 

 The lower space is 

 roughly a square, laid 

 out as a little rose 

 garden, with grass paths 

 and a central sundial. 

 Here also is the first 

 summer-house, illustrated 

 in Fig. i, the arrow and 

 letter A on the general 

 plan (Fig. 4) showing the 

 point of view. It 

 centres the sundial and 

 the grass paths between 

 the rose-beds, and has 

 a pretty view of the 

 church and distant hills, 

 cut as an oval upright 

 picture through the 

 shrubs and further hedge. 

 Outside the grass plot a 

 path runs round three 

 sides, with further 

 borders of shrubs and 

 flowers. A plan is given 

 of the planting of the 

 one on the shady side that 

 contains the summer- 

 house (Fig. 5). 



To the next division 

 there is a drop of some 

 feet a flight of steps 

 leading down to another 

 level, also roughly 

 square, with a central 

 path dividing two large 

 clumps of flower and 

 shrub. The chinks of 

 the steps and the returns 

 of the dry-walling at 

 their sides are bright 

 with aubrietia in May, 

 and the walls to right 

 and left are planted with 

 stonecrops, snapdragons, 

 catmint (Nepeta) and 

 other pretty things. At 

 the foot of the steps, 

 squares with flat stone 

 " D " (SEE FIG. 9), 



