Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



convenience and comiort. 

 The ground is a little more 

 than half an acre, seventy- 

 seven feet wide and some- 

 thing over four hundred feet 

 deep, on a rather steep slope 

 facing south - south east. 

 Except for the first hundred 

 feet, which was fairly level, 

 it lay with an awkward 

 diagonal tilt, but it was 

 evident that this could easily 

 be rectified by terracing in a 

 series of levels. The area 

 was not enough to allow of 

 any space for kitchen garden ; 

 the whole is therefore given 

 to flowers and shrubs, with 

 one or two small grass plots. 

 The house, designed by 

 Mr. Lutyens, is reminiscent of 

 some of the small houses of 

 good type built in England 

 under Dutch influence in the 

 early years of the eighteenth 

 century. It is approached 

 from the road by a door in a 

 wall leading into a forecourt. 

 A paved path of Portland 

 stone leads through turf to a 

 wide, flagged platform of the 

 same and to the stone- 

 wrought doorway. The plant- 

 ing of the forecourt is kept 

 rather quiet, with plenty of 

 good green foliage. On the 

 left the wall of the office wing 

 is nearly clothed by a vine, 

 and on the right a rather 

 high wall is covered with the 

 wilder kinds of clematis, 

 montana and vitalba, with 

 a r b u t u s , laurustinus and 

 spirsea lindleyana treated as 

 wall plants, and the borders 

 at the foot have acanthus, 

 m e g a s e a , Lent hellebore, 

 Solomon's Seal and hardy 

 ferns. The flowers are of the 

 modest type, such as colum- 

 . bines and campanulas, the 

 whole intention being to be 



