. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Fir,. -ANOTHER FORECOURT TREATIIEXT. large- and the SUGGESTED PLAN PROVIDE TURNING SPACE MOTOR-CAR, Ionia, witn a the narrower spaces and towards the path, of smaller shrubs, such as lavender, rosemary, phlomis, the dwarf rhodode ndrons, olearias and hardy fuchsias ; then, if front spaces still need filling there is nothing better than the leaved megaseas stately acanthus in com- bination with the dark- leaved shrubs, and of southernwood and santolina with the grey. The title of this ^'olume, " Gardens for Small Country Houses," need
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Fir,. -ANOTHER FORECOURT TREATIIEXT. large- and the SUGGESTED PLAN PROVIDE TURNING SPACE MOTOR-CAR, Ionia, witn a the narrower spaces and towards the path, of smaller shrubs, such as lavender, rosemary, phlomis, the dwarf rhodode ndrons, olearias and hardy fuchsias ; then, if front spaces still need filling there is nothing better than the leaved megaseas stately acanthus in com- bination with the dark- leaved shrubs, and of southernwood and santolina with the grey. The title of this ^'olume, " Gardens for Small Country Houses," needs, perhaps, some explanation, because a few of the pictures reproduced belong ob\'iously to large gardens. Although some of the gardens described in the earlier " monograph " chapters (I. to VL) are of fairly large extent, they mark the increasing tendency to be generous in the provision of garden space round country houses which ma\' fairly be called small. We have not attempted to deal with the little plots which belong to little cottages, as they give scarcely any scope for invention or conscious design. Several scores of photographs have been taken specially for the purposes of the book, but it has not been found possible to rely solely on existing small gardens, known to us, for pictures that would elucidate the points we wished to make. It is fair to claim, however, that no feature has been illustrated which would not be fitting in a small garden when reduced in scale, or which it would be wrong so to reduce. In order that the range of illustration should be as wide as possible, we have been glad to avail ourselves of several sketches for pools, walls and the like, which Mr. Inigo Triggs has kindly placed at our disposal. To Mr. J. Maxwell Scott and Mr. Charles Yates,. y. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly r
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