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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



hundred pounds, and this takes no account of planting, but the money has been 

 worthily spent. 



Sometimes, as at Hurtwood Edge (Fig. 105), the obviously right placing of the 

 house with reference to aspect and view brings it about that the slope is at an angle 

 with the chief front. It is a dangerous enterprise to plan a terraced garden on 

 irregular lines in order to follow an erratic contour, and a geometrical, or at least 

 symmetrical, shape will almost always be the best. The perspective view repro- 

 duced in Fig. 105 represents the original design of the garden (not yet carried out 

 entirely). It shows how delightful a feature may be made of the tall buttress with 

 its pier at one corner of the terrace. The natural fall of the site gave an 

 architectural opportunity which Mr. Arthur T. Bolton, who designed the house. 



FIG. 100. — LITTLEHOLME, GUILDFORD: PLAN AND SECTION SHOWING TREATMENT OF SLOPING SITE 



BY MR. THOMAS YOUNG. 



