Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



from the path above 

 and the grass below. 

 The lower space is 

 roughly a square, laid 

 out as a little rose 

 garden, with grass paths 

 and a central sundial. 

 Here also is the first 

 summer-house, illustrated 

 in Fig. I, the arrow and 

 letter A on the general 

 plan (Fig. 4) showing the 

 point of view. It 

 centres the sundial and 

 the grass paths between 

 the rose-beds, and has 

 a pretty view of the 

 church and distant hills, 

 cut as an oval upright 

 picture through the 

 shrubs and further hedge. 

 Outside the grass plot a 

 path runs round three 

 sides, with further 

 borders of shrubs and 

 flowers. A plan is given 

 of the planting of the 

 one on the shady side that 

 contains the summer- 

 house (Fig. 5). 



To the next division 

 there is a drop of some 

 feet — a flight of , steps 

 leading down to another 

 level, also roughly 

 square, with a central 

 path dividing two large 

 clumps of flower and 

 shrub. The chinks of 

 the steps and the returns 

 of the dry-walling at 

 their sides are bright 

 with aubrietia in May, 

 and the walls to right 

 and left are planted with 

 stonecrops, snapdragons, 

 catmint {Nepeta) and 

 other pretty things. At 

 the foot of the steps, 

 squares with flat stone 



FIG. 6. — PLANTING PLAN AT VIEW POINTS "c" (SEE FIG. 7), "d" (SEE FIG. 9), 



AND " e" (see FIG. 8). 



