166 GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



can be used in its place. A pretty arrangement is where 

 a line of red bricks alternates with irregular-shaped grey 

 stone paving. Sometimes a few hundred bricks are left 

 over after a house has been built, and although not suffi- 

 cient in themselves to make a long path, they will do so 

 if some pieces of York slab are used too. The bricks are 

 practical, also, for wheeling a barrow over, as the wheel 

 will run smoothly upon them. If a small terrace is paved 

 in this way, a distinct pattern can be made by carrying 

 the red bricks so as to form an outline to the whole or a 

 lozenge shape. Care must be taken in planting, not to 

 put pink or red flowers near the bricks ; blue, yellow, or 

 white will look best. It is advisable to try and get as 

 pale a colour of brick as possible, not a harsh, crude red. 



Wide terrace walks look charming if arranged with 

 alternate pale-coloured brickwork, white flints, and York 

 slab ; or the two first alone set in lozenge patterns give a 

 pretty glistening effect. Red tiles can be used in place of 

 bricks, and their smooth surface makes a nice contrast to 

 the roughness of the flint pattern. A charming reserve 

 flower garden beside a small pond is so arranged, and upon 

 the corners of the square flower-beds there are placed, 

 mounted high upon pedestals, little terra-cotta oil-jars 

 that came from Italy. From the walk which approaches 

 this garden, by the side of the water, the tall, graceful 

 figure of the owner is seen as she picks an old-fashioned 

 " tussie-mussie " of flowers. The picture is perfectly 

 framed, for a line of children's hoops, with rambler roses 

 trained round them, is what we look at it through. 



For other gardens, where there are steps leading down 

 to terraces, it is possible to obtain variety by laying 

 stones in patterns. At the foot of the stairs, old disused 

 tramway-stones can be arranged to form rays. Some 

 are laid lengthways, others in between are put horizontally. 

 Such an arrangement is not intended for plants to grow 



