4 7 4 Plan of a small Garden 



on the right, to which an entrance is effected within the pre- 

 mises. A wall is supposed to stand at the back of the kitchen- 

 garden for fruit trees, and an alcove, or reading-room, is placed 

 at the extremity of the lawn in front of the house. 

 Portland Place, 1835. 



Art. VIII. Plan of a small Garden in the Town of Godalming, 

 Surrey, laid out for H. Marshal, Esq., Solicitor, by Richard Var- 

 den, Esq., Architect, in 1833. Communicated by Mr. Varden. 



The front of the house {fig. 8l.y ) is close to the street (a), and 

 the back is towards the garden, which gradually ascends from 

 it to a paddock, whence the ground rises rather sharply, till it 

 terminates in a steep wooded hill, from the summit of which 

 there is a pleasing view of the town, and of a grassy valley en- 

 closed by steep copse-covered hills, with the river Wey winding 

 through it; the whole terminating with the chalk hills and cliffs 

 of Guildford. 



The garden was overrun and shaded by straggling trees of 

 very little beauty, that gave it a damp and cheerless appearance. 

 I had these removed, and the surface of the ground lowered, for 

 the walk to cross the lawn without being seen from the drawing- 

 room windows ; the earth was shifted lower down the hill, and 

 formed in such a manner as to give an appearance, when seen 

 from the garden, of the house being on slightly rising ground. 

 This alteration gave the whole surface of the lawn an undulation, 

 that greatly enlarged its apparent extent. 



In ;%. 81. a is the street; 6, the front garden ; c, the steps to 

 the front door ; e, the carriage entrance. The house is aty," 

 having against it, on the lawn, or south side, a gay-looking red- 

 striped veranda, the stone floor of which is supported on piers 

 so as to admit light to the rooms in the basement, by an area 

 paved with white glazed tiles, and surrounded by sloping rough 

 flint walls, planted with sun roses (helianthemums), and other 

 dwarf rock plants. 



The garden, on the east side, as far as g, is enclosed by different 

 erections, the outline of which has been formed so as, when 

 covered with creepers, to resemble a part of an extensive old 

 English building. To this point the view is quite confined; 

 but over the wall beyond, which is finished with buttresses and 

 pinnacles, so as to display advantageously the climbing plants 

 covering it, may be seen a part of the steep wooded hills before 

 mentioned. 



Between the points d h are visible the paddock, and a garden 

 sloping up the hill, i is the coach gate into the yard k ; and / 

 is a door for the horse to pass to and from the paddock, without 



