Studio: international art (21.1901)

Garden-Making

the vista or perspective view, as of a cathedral
aisle or vaulted cloister, weaving out of ordered
repetition that mystery of bayed extension which
has always seemed to delight man's eye. It is clear
that this extension can be, with regard to the
house or entrance to the garden, of two different
kinds: as it stretches right and left on either
side; 'or, secondly, projects away directly from
the eye. In the first case the effect introduces
the terrace, as at Burneside, Downe Hall
and Point Hill, with the idea of a gallery
rather than the hall of the square garden, and
with a view as from windows on to a scene
beneath; equally there comes, too, into its
design the long border walk walled on the north
side, and ending in an arbour seat. An oblong,

sixty yards by twenty-five, is also laid out here
to give lawn and orchard as well as flowers
and vegetables.

The charm is greatest when the slope is steep
enough away from the entrance (or the eye) to
allow of a series of terraces, with a view from the
topmost of an under-world of garden and orchard,
and in the distance, perhaps, a glimpse of southern
sea or undulating down. But, as shown in the illus-
trations of Point Hill which were given on pages 28
and 29 of the last number, the feeling of a terraced
garden can be got without the regularity of formal
stonework, but following the contours of a cliff edge.

More often, however, the oblong, with which the
garden-maker has to deal, is one that lengthens
back from the house or entrance. In this the

SQUARE FLOWER GARDEN
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SCALE, FIVE YARDS TO THE INCH