Water in the Formal Garden. 



the contrast between the curves of the descending steps and the lines of the margin 

 of the pool is altogether successful. 



Another scheme of design, eminently suited to gardens of limited area, is 

 the water parterre, such as is shown by plan and perspective by Mr. Inigo Triggs 

 (Figs. 211 and 212). The design, made by the same hand, for a walled pool 

 and fountains, reproduced in Fig. 213, is unusual and interesting. The 

 water is carried to shaped basins on the top of brick piers at the four corners, 

 whence it falls into tanks built in the corners of the dwarf walls. From here 

 it circulates round a tiny canal and ultimately finds its way to the lowest pool. 

 This treatment is intended for a flat site, so that the level of the topmost kerb 



FIG. 214. EXTENDED POOL AT CHELWOOD VETCHERY. 



would be the same as the surrounding garden. The plan and section explain 

 the design in detail, the total space occupied being only a square seventeen 

 feet six inches each way. It should be added that tall fountains of this type 

 can only be worked in connection with a supply cistern placed at a higher 

 level than the basins. The whole idea is based on some of the delightful little 

 patio gardens in Southern Spain, and nowhere can better lessons be learnt of the 

 use of water in small gardens. 



