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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



FIG. 71. ROSE GARDEN AT ISLAND, STEEP. 



In the case 

 of small garden 

 spaces which are 

 overlooked there 

 is nothing more 

 helpful to the de- 

 signer than a treil- 

 lage screen. In 

 Figs. 78 and 79 is 

 shown a scheme, 

 devised by Mr. 

 Inigo Triggs, for 

 the treatment of 

 a square plot, 

 which measures 

 seventy-four feet 

 each way. There 

 is a stepped pool 

 in the middle, and 

 the shaped beds 

 of a parterre are 

 geometrically dis- 

 posed with reference to four Irish yews. In the corners there would be wooden 

 seats, which have been omitted in the perspective sketch for the purpose of clearness. 

 For the same reason no roses are shown clothing the trellis and no flowers in the beds. 

 The treillage itself is intended to be made of split oak laths interwoven basket- 

 fashion, and the framing would also be of oak with little balls on the tops of the 

 posts. The general effect of a scheme like this, when in being, is well shown by the 



photograph of a 

 trellis garden, 

 which is included 

 among the illustra- 

 tions of the Pergola 

 Chapter. 



Although this 

 volume is devoted in 

 the main to the gar- 

 dens of small country 

 houses, the designing 

 of a town garden does 

 not demand the 

 application of very 

 different principles 

 except in so far as 

 more conscious archi- 

 tectural motifs may 

 find a just place. The 

 garden at 100, Cheyne 

 Walk, Chelsea, the 



FIG. 72. PAVED FORECOURT AT SEAL HOLLOW, SEVENOAKS. residence of Sir Hugh 



