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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



CHAPTER X.— BALUSTRADES AND WALLS. 



The Design of Balusters — The Imitation of Historical Examples — Walls and Parapets 

 of Open Brickwork — Walls Surmounted by Beams — A Coronal Garden — Serpentine 



Walls — Building in Concrete. 



TERRACE balustrading in stone of the sort shown in the picture below is a 

 costly feature of garden architecture, and belongs rather to large schemes 

 than to those which develop round a small house. Beyond illustrating as 

 models this Jacobean example, and a modern apphcation of the same treatment by 

 Mr. Inigo Thomas at Rotherfield, in Figs. 132 and 133, it will, therefore, be enough to 

 put in a claim for refinement in baluster design. In the terraces of great houses where 



FIG. 130. — A JACOBEAN BALUSTRADE. 



