The Treatment of Small Sites. 



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a green court and pool which have not yet been made, but on pages 150 and 151 are 

 given plan and sketch of the interesting fountain treatment which Mr. Triggs has 

 devised for it. The area covered by the sunk and walled garden now illustrated (by 

 a comprehensive view in Fig. 67) is only ninety feet by sixty feet, and is justly 

 described as small. 



The paved garden at Island, Steep (Fig. 71), illustrates a practical point of impor- 

 tance. The beds are arranged in such a way that all work on the flowers can be 

 done from the paved paths. This is useful in the many cases where ladies do not 

 leave pruning, etc., to the gardener, and like to do the work dryshod. In this garden 

 the parterre is sunk about eighteen inches below the general level, and there are 

 bands of turf above and below the retaining wall, but not among the flower-beds. 



Another example of a paved parterre without grass is illustrated in Fig. 72, 

 which shows tlxe 

 treatment by Mr. 

 Baillie Scott of a 

 forecourt at the en- 

 trance front of a 

 house at Sevenoaks. 

 An attractive feature 

 of it is the raised 

 basin in the middle, 

 which is built in 

 coloured tiles. Other 

 examples of like treat- 

 ment are at The 

 P 1 a 1 1 s , Petersfield, 

 by Mr. Inigo Triggs 

 (Fig. 74) ; Combe- 

 lands, Pulborough, 

 by Professor E. S. 

 Prior (Fig. 73) ; and 

 Cray, by Mr. Maber- 

 ley Smith (Fig. 75). 

 The photograph of 

 the last of these 

 was taken before 

 planting was begun, 

 and shows the gar- 

 den in all the naked- 

 ness of its unclothed masonry, but it shows the levels all the better for that. It 

 should be explained that great tubs with chpped trees are intended to be placed 

 at the ends of the tongues of paving, which otherwise would be purposeless. More 

 detailed reference to the laying of paved work and to suitable materials are given 

 elsewhere (Chapter XV.), but it may be noted in connection with the sunk garden 

 at Plewland, Haslemere, designed by Messrs. Read and Macdonald (Fig. yy), that 

 the dry-built retaining walls make, with their rough stone, a strong-looking base 

 to the house itself. In districts where the local stone is costly for house-building 

 or unsuitable by reason of being porous or possessing other defects, it is good to use it 

 for garden walls. It yields a contrast with the red brick of the house and gives an 

 impression both of roughness and stabihty that is helpful. 



FIG. 70. — LITTLE BOARHUNT : PLAN OF 



GARDEN. 



