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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 





FIG. I06 — HURTWOOD EDGE : TERRACE FROM BELOW. 



but satisfactory way of dealing with a sloping site 

 ■ in a small garden is shown in Fig. 109, which 

 ;i?|J illustrates the garden at The Barn, Witley, 

 Reading. Mr. Frank Chesterton has done no 



FIG. 107. — THE TERRACE. 



FIG. 108.— HURTWOOD EDGE: PLAN OF GARDEN SCHEME. ' 



're than provide a short flight of steps, 

 between dwarf walls, which leads to a little 

 terrace. The materials deserve a word. In order 

 to save cost the steps were built of rough purple 



