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interesting gate treatment, as may be 

 seen in Figs. 291 and 292, which show 

 examples at Great Maytham designed by 

 Sir E. Lntyens. Tlie larger gate is the chief , 

 and the smaller a subsidiary entrance to 

 the same garden. By the same hand, 

 but on a much smaller scale, is a little 

 gateway in the garden of Wittersham 

 House (Fig. 290). The outlines of the 

 ironwork are of the simplest, but the 

 gate has the quiet distinction which 

 follows good design even on the smallest 

 scale and in the humblest materials. 



Although the chief place of gates will 

 always be at the entrance to carriage-ways 

 and in walled gardens, a long terrace some- 

 times gives opportunity, as at Chelwood 

 Vetchery, the seat of Sir Stuart Samuel, 

 Bart., M.P. Mr. Rome Guthrie has here 

 marked a drop in terrace level by an iron 

 gate between brick piers at the head of a 

 flight of steps curved on plan. 



In Fig. 284 is shown a good pattern 

 of wooden garden gate, made of stout 



FIG. 292. 



-IN THE WALLED GARDEN AT GREAT 

 MAYTHAM. 



FIG. 293. — AT CHELWOOD VETCHERY. 



