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contemplated lends changefulness to variety of growth. Very often the designer 

 of a small garden is faced by the difficulty of giving it privacy, and shrinks from the 

 uninteresting solution of building a plain high wall. In such a case the two schemes 

 indicated in Figs. 138 and 139 suggest happy alternati^'es, the former of which appears 

 in a modified form in the picture (Fig. 68) of Mr. Inigo Triggs' own garden at Liphook. 

 It shows a stone wall eighteen inches thick, and it is desirable, where choice is possible, 

 to build it of sandstone in order that it may weather to a pleasant colour. This type 

 of garden masonry looks best when the joints are well raked out, so that each individual 

 stone may show distinctly. The piers are spaced ten feet apart, and are connected 

 by curves. Rough beams about four inches square, with cross-pieces about two inches 

 square, are supported on the piers, and roses and other creeping plants are trained to 

 intertwine amid the woodwork. In Fig. 139 a similar arrangement is shown for brick 



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walls, with this interesting difference : the piers for a distance of two feet from the 

 top and the boxes at their sides are of four and a-half inch brickwork filled with earth. 

 In the illustration these receptacles are shown in broken section rather than with 

 appropriate plants growing, in order that the method of construction may be clear. 

 Each should be drained with a small pipe about one inch in diameter, which will throw 

 the drainage-water clear of the wall on its far side. The spacing of the piers in this 

 case, as in the last, should be about ten feet, and a good height for either type is eight 

 feet, the walls thus being about five feet. Where bricks are used, red is the best 

 colour. If only inferior bricks are available, the walls should be rough-cast or 

 cemented (a finishing coat being laid very roughly), and should show the marks of the 

 wooden float. Much more ambitious and very successful is the design of the wall 

 that encircles a little round garden (called the Coronal) at Athelhampton, designed 

 by Mr. Inigo Thomas. Its parapet dips in a series of half rounds, and the rising 



