158 GARDEN-CRAFT. 



embrace the main buildings, the out-buildings, the 

 flower and kitchen -gardens, terraces, walls, fore- 

 court, winter-garden, conservatory, fountain, steps, 

 &c. The other makes the house common to the 

 commonplace ; owing no allegiance to Art, a specialist 

 of one idea, he holds that the worst thing that can 

 be done is to intrude architectural or geometrical 

 arrangement about a garden, and speaks of a re- 

 freshing carpet of grass as preferable. 



As to the extent, number, and situation of ter- 

 races, this point is determined by the conditions of 

 the house and site. Terraces come naturally if the 

 house be on an eminence, but even in cases where 

 the ground recedes only to a slight extent, the 

 surface of a second terrace may be lowered by in- 

 creasing the fall of the slope till sufficient earth is 

 provided for the requisite filling. The surplus earth 

 dug out in forming the foundations and cellars of the 

 house, or rubbish from an old building, will help to 

 make up the terrace levels and save the cost of 

 wheeling and carting the rubbish away. 



Like all embankments, terrace walls are built 

 with " battered " fronts or outward slope ; the back 

 of the wall will be left rough, and well drained. A 

 backing of sods, Mr. Milner says, will prevent thrust, 

 and admit of a lessened thickness in the wall. The 

 walls should not be less than three feet in height 

 from the ground-level beneath, exclusive of the 

 balustrade, which is another three feet high. 



The length of the terrace adds importance to the 

 house, and in small gardens, where the kitchen- 



