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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



support to the shoots 



occupied on a short 



pergola of short Hfetime would 



spacious 

 are 



garden 



flimsy structure and the prolongation affords more 



of the gourds (Fig. 259). Often a house and 



tenancy, such as three years ; in this case such a 



form a delightful feature. 



When it is possible to build with solid piers, we see how thoroughly our architects 



and garden designers 



have assimilated the 



,-■■'. pergola idea, and the 



. . many and various 



' - ways in which they 



are working it out 

 and adapting it for 

 combination with 

 other structures. 

 In the example at St. 

 Clere, Kemsing (Fig. 

 260), designed b}^ Mr. 

 Godfrey Pinkerton, 

 it covers a wide 

 flagged terrace 

 adjoining one side of 

 the racquet court. 

 The piers are built 

 of large, flat paving 

 tiles resting on a 

 stone step, and have 

 stone caps and bases. 

 They carry a heavy, 

 continuous beam; 

 lesser beams, with 

 one end resting on 

 this, have their other 

 ends treated putlog 

 fashion and built 

 into the house wall. 

 A singularly satis- 

 factory pergola bv 

 Mr. Inigo Triggs 

 (Fig. 261) is built of 

 ordinary brick with 

 wide mortar joint, 

 on short plinths of 

 rough local stone, 

 with steps of the 

 same. Oak timbers 

 Chains hang from post to post for the future 

 very beautiful open pergola at Marsh Court, 



FK,. 258. — OF LARCH POLES WLIII WELL-SHAPED BRACES 



from an old building form the roof, 

 training of roses as garlands. In £ 

 designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (Fig. 26 

 they have stone plinths and moulded 

 concave square alternately. This fine 



the piers are built of tiles with \\ide joints 



stone caps, the section being square and 



example also shows the value of the solid. 



