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Balustrades and Walls. 



concrete was poured. An admirable crown is given to the wall by dark grey 

 Dutch pantiles. The building of garden walls to mask kitchen courts and 

 other spaces, which are necessarily untidy at times, belongs rather to the design 

 of the house than of the garden, but one example is illustrated in Fig. 146 because 

 of its intrinsically garden treatment. A stout trellis is set penthouse-fashion from 

 the ridged screen wall (in the foregroimd of the picture) to the wall of the house, 

 and offers hospitality to such creepers as are light enough not to interfere too 

 much with the usefulness of the windows beneath. 



FIG. r46A. — WALL AT WROXALL ABBEY WITH SEMI-CIRCULAR BAYS. 



