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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



Its green walls vary in thickness from six to ten feet and are no less than 

 twenty-five feet in height. The garden slopes downwards from north-east to south- 

 west and faces the road on the south and east boundaries. It steps upwards from 

 the road m five terraces, and the whole rise is about twenty-five feet. The front of 

 the house is on the second terrace and the back on the third. The main entrance to 



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FIG. V. -PLAN OF G.'-\R1)KN AT OWLPKN MANOR. 



the^ garden is on the south, where there is a gateway (illustrated among Steps and 

 Stairways on page 86) with a broad path leading to the'house. On the north boundary 

 there IS a wall, which forms an embankment to the churchyard rising above it 



Not unhke Owlpen in some of its characteristics is the garden of Markyate Cell 

 near Dunstable. While Owlpen has kno\\'n no change save that of maturino- ^rowth 



