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has been built up on a hillside, a 

 corner gazebo, like that shown in 

 Fig. 299, designed by Mr. Walter 

 Cave, seems to buttress the terrace, 

 while ^it serves as a delightful 

 vantage-point whence the country 

 round may be espied. The quality 

 to be aimed at in all garden archi- 

 tecture is coherence in the relation- 

 ship of parts. A pavilion should 

 not stand alone, but be tied to the 

 rest of the scheme by orderly design. 

 Where the house is of definitely 

 classic form, it is permissible that the 

 summer-houses shall take on the 

 aspect of a little temple. In Mr. 

 Arnold Mitchell's garden at Great 

 Baddow, illustrated in Fig. 300, the 

 vista made by path and borders is 



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FIG. 300. — AT THE END OF A LONG WALK. 



FIG. 299. — GAgEBO AT CORNER OF TERRACED FORECOURT 



closed by a pleasant little classical conceit in 

 stone. In the case of houses of no marked 

 style, it is better for the design of pavilions to 

 follow the vernacular traditions of simple 

 building proper to various districts. 



A garden at Liphook shows the pleasant 

 results of rough masonry and tiles employed 

 in two summer-houses designed by Mr. 

 W. T. A. T. Carter (Figs. 301 and 302). One 

 has a hexagonal roof in the corner of the wall ; 

 the other is of L plan, which marks the end of 



