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House & 
Garden 
All the photographs illustrating 
this article are of English water 
gardens. The one above is at 
Bridge House, Weybridge, Sur¬ 
rey, the residence of Mrs. Trower. 
At the end of the little canal is 
an Italian tea-house flanked with 
creeper-clad columns. Mr. Harold 
Peto designed the garden 
The arch forming the inlet to the 
water parterre, in the illustration 
below this, is built in dry stone. 
The treatment of the curb, which 
is edged with flag-stones, should 
be noted, since it avoids a too 
sharp edge in an ingenious manner 
{Left) At the end of the lower 
terrace in Mr. Prince Smith’s 
garden at Whinburn, Keighley, 
Yorkshire, lies this pool. White 
valerian grows in the dry bank, 
but nothing breaks the calm sur¬ 
face of the water save two sparse 
clumps of reeds. Designed by 
Mr. 0. Maxwell Ayrton 
The water parterre which runs 
the entire length of the centre 
terrace at Whinburn, Keighley, is 
of unusual and interesting design. 
Iris grows within its narrow bor¬ 
ders, and foxgloves hide the top 
of the dry-built terrace wall 
