Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



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CHAPTER VII.— THE TREATMENT OF SMALL SITES. 



Some Gardens by Mr. Inigo Triggs — The Value of Historical Examples — Paved Parterres — 



The Use of Treillage — A Town Garden by Mr. Lutyens — A Seaside Garden by Mr. 



Mallows — Planting Scheme by Mr. H. Avray Tipping — Various Typical Examples. 



THERE is no problem before the architect and garden designer more difficult, 

 and at the same time more attractive, than is presented by small sites, and 

 particularly by the long, narrow spaces that go with houses of small frontage. 

 So important are the limitations of the latter that a separate chapter has been 

 devoted to the treatment of a typical case, i.e., Millmead, Bramley (pages i to 9). 

 In this chapter will be described various examples of successful small gardens that 

 owe their charm mainly to skilful design, however well that has been expressed and 

 emphasised by right choice in planting. Where the area to be dealt with is a small 

 rectangle and fiat, there are few better ways of treating it than by laying out a paved 

 garden with or without grass, but preferably with it. If grass be omitted altogether, 

 winter, with its empty flower-beds, brings a grim and bare look. It is fitting to begin 

 the series with one devised by 

 Mr. H. Inigo Triggs. p -: pr -:;- ^ - sj _ 1 



The revival of the right i 

 principles of garden design in 

 England during the last twenty 

 years is due to a compara- 

 tively small band of people, 

 who by word and deed have 

 shown the right way. The first 

 thing necessary was to go back 

 to such old examples as had 

 survived the onslaughts of the 

 " landscape" school, to publish 

 measured drawings and photo- 

 graphs of them, and to analyse 

 the qualities that make their 

 beauty. In this necessary work 

 Mr. Inigo Triggs has taken a 

 leading part. His great folio 

 volumes. Formal Gardens in 

 England and Scotland and The 

 Art of Garden Craft in Italy, 

 were pioneer works that did 

 great service. The especial 

 need of such historical research 

 becomes obvious when it is 

 realised how swiftly and some- 

 times irrevocably the aspects 

 of gardens change. Mr. Triggs 

 has emphasised the fact that 



FIG. 66. — LITTLE BOARHUNT, LIPHOOK. 



