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colour. Repetition of colour and form is known among 

 artists to create a feeling of rhythm, harmony and repose 

 in a painting. There are innumerable instances of this. 

 When a painter is more or less compelled to paint a passage 

 in some striking and obtrusive colour (such as a military 

 uniform in a portrait), and yet wishes to harmonise his whole 

 composition, he places smaller masses of the same colour 

 (possibly in slightly differing shades) in various parts of his 

 picture. The result is to make the violent passage less in- 

 sistent. So when a house is built in red brick, for example, 

 and its surroundings — for the most part green, the exact 

 complementary of red — must be brought into harmony with 

 it, a garden designer will do well to carry red into the garden 

 and green on to the walls of the house. A red brick terrace 

 in good proportion as to height and length, with a balustrade 

 or parapet repeating in style, colour and form (but all, of 

 course, in a minor degree) the features of the house, will 

 be likely to answer his purpose in the best possible way. 

 Creepers and trained plants on both terrace and house will 

 help to blend and harmonise the whole. And if still more 

 repetition is wanted, red-tiled roofs of stables and lodges, 

 partly seen and partly hidden ; planting here and there red 

 and brown leaved trees ; and above all, a really well-chosen 

 scheme of colour in flower-beds will complete a successful 

 design. 



The terrace at Bagshot Park has called forth some of the 

 above thoughts and suggestions. The work there has been 

 designed and carried out with the utmost success, and is fully 

 described in Chapter III. The modern Italian style of ter- 

 racing at Osborne, also, is particularly noteworthy, and forms 

 a stately connecting link between mansion and park. The 

 terrace is made on two levels. Extremely well-proport oned 

 and handsome flights of steps lead from one to the other. 

 Statues and fountains, a graceful pergola with stone pillars, 

 and flower-filled vases are its ' furniture.' The Norman 

 Tower terraces are circular in plan, and, like all the main 

 features in that lovely and unique garden, deserve most atten- 



