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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



FIG. 249. AN OLD SUSSEX CHURCH PAVING OF BRICK. 



FIG. 25O. PAVEMENT RATHER OVER-PLANTED IN THE MIDDLE. 



pavement as the floor of a 

 summer-house. 



In the case of places near 

 the sea, pretty pavings can be 

 made by collecting stones of 

 different colours from among 

 banks of shingle. There is 

 hardly a shingle beach that 

 does not contain stones that 

 are nearly black and nearly 

 white, and others with several 

 shades of buff and brown, only 

 waiting for the invention and 

 ingenuity that will work them 

 into patterned pavements. 



When it is not convenient 

 or desirable to use stone there 

 is the alternative of brick and 

 tile, materials which also offer 

 a wide field for thoughtful and 

 clever treatment. The circular 

 paving round the sundial (Fig, 

 245) shows how ordinary paving 

 bricks may be laid, with- 

 out any shaping of the bricks, 

 in a way that is extremely 

 simple and yet full of dignity. 

 A radiating pavement of tile 

 and brick can also be made of 

 roofing tile on edge forming the 

 rays with a herring-bone filling, 

 of brick. A pavement under 



