Placing the Pergola 
the lawn is intended to be sunk to the depth of about 
2 feet, in which case steps would have to be introduced 
in places other than those shown. The effect of this 
would be to create a garden lacking the essential 
repose, as, obviously, if the principal entrance to the 
garden was by the central steps, one would have to 
go down steps to the lawn, and up a similar number of 
steps to get off the lawn again. 
Mr. Lawrence Weaver, commenting on this design 
in The Garden, admirably summed up its failings in 
the following words : 
‘‘ He has utilized the site by making a feature of the 
terrace, but does not seem to have considered the 
various parts of the garden in relation to the garden 
doors of the house. He has ventured upon that very 
difficult problem the design of a rock garden, and it 
can scarcely be said with any great success. In a 
general way it is better not to attempt to combine rock- 
work with formal elements like a Rose parterre, as in 
this case. Rockwork is much better treated as an 
independent item, and altogether screened from the 
more regular features of the garden. The placing 
of the Rose pergola has also proved somewhat of a 
snare. It has its value in dividing the Rose garden 
from the herbaceous garden, but it is placed over a 
path which does not lead to anywhere in particular. 
The pergola should always be regarded as a connect- 
ing-link between two definite parts of the garden, and 
not as a thing which is justified in its own right 
wherever it may be put.’’ 
Another simple but very effective design was the 
one sent in by Miss Norah Geddes. Perhaps in 
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