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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



the scale is big throughout, a certain 

 heaviness of treatment is not 

 only allowable but even necessary, 

 but small schemes demand delicate 

 handling. It is unsafe to rely upon 

 historical examples for imitation 

 merely because they look admirable 

 in their own setting. We have to 

 reckon with the glamour which age 

 brings with weathering and lichen, 

 and to beware. There are many 

 features of old work which will not 

 bear reproduction without looking 

 garish to the point of vulgarity. 

 It is difficult, moreover, in the case 

 of an old house or church, to draw 

 a line between the emotional appeal 

 of history and the strictly archi- 

 tectural merits, the more so a? 

 Time's way with buildings, as with 

 men, is to soften them. The student 

 of such things may amuse himself 

 by wondering what would be the 

 verdict of the sightseer concerning 

 Roslyn Chapel if he were to see it 

 in all its luxuriance, but fresh from 





FIG. 132. TERRACE BALUSTRADE AT ROTHERFIELD. 



FIG. 133.- ROTHERFIELD : DETAILS OF TERRACE WALLS. 



