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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



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FIG. 249. — AN OLD SUSSEX CHURCH PAVING OF BKICK. 



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FIG. 250. — PAVEMENT RATHER OVER-PLANTED IN THE MIDDLE. 



pavement as the floor of a 

 summer-house. 



In the case of places near 

 the sea, pretty pavings can be 

 made by collecting stones of 

 different colours from among 

 banks of shingle. There is 

 hardly a shingle beach that 

 does not contain stones that 

 are nearly black and nearly 

 white, and others with several 

 shades of buff and brown, only 

 waiting for the invention and 

 ingenuit}^ that will work them 

 into patterned pavements. 



When it is not convenient 

 or desirable to use stone there 

 is the alternative of brick and 

 tile, materials which also offer 

 a wide field for thoughtful and 

 clever treatment. The circular 

 paving round the sundial (Fig. 

 245) shows how ordinarv paving 

 bricks m a v be laid, with- 

 out any shaping of the bricks, 

 in a wav that is extremely 

 simple and yet full of dignity. 

 A radiating pa\'ement of tile 

 and brick can also be made of 

 roofing tile on edge forming the 

 rays with a herring-bone filling 

 of brick. A pavement under 



