. Jardins pour les petites maisons de campagne. Les jardins. 74 jardins pour les petites maisons de campagne. Chapitre VIII.-SUR Hillside Gardens. Lady Mary digne sur Montagti-terrasses-jardins en terrasses Escaliers-matériaux peu coûteux-divers exemples. Pas de site donne une grande occasion pour le concepteur en tant qu'un qui descend en flèche. Si du point de vue de la maison ou le jardin, c'est un point discutable de savoir si c'est mieux que la pente doit être vers le bas du nord au sud, avec une pente vers le haut ou vers le sud. En supposant que la chambre, c'est de faire face au sud, l'ancienne disposition désigne un ouvert et le dernier d'un point de vue. Mos

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. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. 74 Gardens for Small Country Houses. CHAPTER VIII.—ON HILLSIDE GARDENS. Lady Mary Worthy Montagti on Terraces—Stairways—Terraced Gardens—Inexpensive Materials—Various Examples. NO site gives such great opportunity to the designer as one that slopes sharply. Whether from the point of view of house or garden, it is a moot point whether it is better that the slope shall be downwards from north to south, or with an upward slope southwards. Assuming that the house is to face south, the former disposition means an open and the latter an enclosed view. Most people prefer an open outlook, but there is a feeling of comfort about seeing one's own boundaries that needs to be taken into account. Generally, however, an alternative is not available, and our site has to be accepted as Nature fashioned it. When a hillside is considered purely from the point of view of garden design, it is obvious that its chief merit is that it calls for the free use of terracing and steps, and no other two features of garden architecture give so great an opportunity for varied and striking treatment. Bacon said that a bay window was the place for conference, and one may pay equal heed to a more lightsome author in her definition of a terrace. Writing from Hinchin- '5^?^-i?a*?f!l; brook to her husband a few months after her marriage. Lady Mary W^ortley Montagu tells him, "I walked yesterday two hours on the terrace, " and again a few days later, "The terrace is my place conse- crated to meditation, which I observe to be gay or grave, as the sun shows or hides his face." Solvitur ambtdando is always a good rule, and a terrace walk, with its un- changing prospect and the sense of security given by its balustraded walls, is always friendly to quiet thought. It keeps the mind free from that hint of surprise which tickles the fancy of the true country lover in the turns even of the most quiet lane. That the creation of arti- ficia

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