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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



The use of old materials — of the disjecta 

 membra of demolished buildings — is a 

 piece of amateur antiquarianism which 

 needs to be approached with some 

 reserve. There are cases, however, where 

 an old set of columns will take their 

 places faithfully and naturally as the 

 supports of a new-built garden-house. 

 Such a use is illustrated in Fig. 307. 

 It is the more appropriate because this 



FIG. 309. — ROUND GARDEN-HOUSE AT LITTLE RIDGE. 



FIG. 30S. — OF TWO STOREYS. 



delightful curved pavilion, with the 

 tiles well " swept " in the making of 

 its conical roof, adorns the garden of 

 an old house in Broadway, where a 

 ripe age gives the prevailing atmo- 

 sphere. A pavilion built up of ill- 

 assorted Elizabethan fragments may, 

 however, look very uncomfortable 

 in a garden which owes its design 

 wholly to the eighteenth century. 

 In the gardens of small new houses 

 it is far safer to accept modernity as 

 the governing factor, and to build a 

 garden-house that frankly expresses 

 the age to which it belongs. That is 

 not to say that the teachings of 

 historical design should be neglected. 

 The garden-house at Little Boar- 

 hunt (Fig. 306) shows how satis- 

 factory can be a pavilion which is 

 not a copy of any particular old 

 example, though it owes its pleasant: 

 aspect to a knowledge of what was 



