Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



CHAPTER IX.— STEPS AND STAIRWAYS. 



Approach, Steps from Road — Stairways in Children's Dramas — Stepped Treatment for 

 Gentle Slopes — Straight and Curved Stairs — Terrace Steps — Unformal Stairs. 



THE notes on the treatment of hillside gardens given in the last chapter necessarily 

 included some references to stairways associated directly with terracing, but 

 the question of steps and their design arises in every kind of site, and in many 

 parts of it. It is usual for a long stairway to be built of the same width throughout 

 its flight, but a very pleasant variety can be got by widening it as it descends. The 

 example shown in Fig. 112 is at Ardkinglas. It was devised in this manner by Sir 

 Robert Lorimer, and very attractive it looks. Where the site of a house stands well 

 above the roadway an interesting and dignified approach is secured by broad steps, 



FIG 112. — WIDENING STAIRWAY AT ARDKINGLAS 



