Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



CHAPTER III. A GARDEN IN BERKSHIRE. 



Roses Grown as " Fountains " Brick Dry-walling Stone-edged Water Garden Refined 



Detail and Ornaments. 



ON the outskirts of the village, a high old wall, with massive buttresses and 

 well-wrought coping, encloses a beautiful new house of moderate size, 

 designed by Mr. Lutyens, and a piece of ground of something under three 

 acres. The land, when taken in hand, was old garden and orchard, with a strong 

 westerly slope ; the soil a rich loam of calcareous character. The -lower part had 

 been the apple orchard, but the greater number of the trees were dead, and many 

 of the remainder so much crippled that but little compunction stood in the way of 

 the removal of a certain number to make way for the new garden design. 



The house is approached directly by a door in the wall to the road ; an arched 

 passage and a paved court with a fountain leading to the main entrance. Another 

 doorway, close to the eastern angle, leads straight into the garden by way of a paved, 

 rose-covered pergola. Between this and the house is a small rose garden. The 

 path is now intersected by the wider terrace running parallel with the south face 

 of the house ;. but proceeding in the original direction the paved path leads to a further 



FIG. 19. THE GARLAND ROSE. POINT OF VIEW "fi" ON GENERAL PLAN (FIG. 2O). 



