. Jardins pour les petites maisons de campagne . Jardins, l'anglais. 36 Garde7est pour les petites maisons de campagne. Chapitre V.-UN JARDIN À WEST SURREY. La pauvreté des sols-Pas de plan défini- cour pavée avec réservoir et étapes-couleurs en fleurs- frontières -- Les chemins forestiers Thunder-chambre. Quinze acres de sol possible les plus pauvres, un peu en pente vers le nord, dans les collines du Surrey. Une peau fine de tourbé la masse sur la partie supérieure, avec une croissance naturelle de Heath, whortleberry et Bracken, lorsqu'un bois de sapin Scotch avait été coupé des douze ans auparavant ; la partie centrale d'une plantation de châtaigniers, de l'inférieur, un pauvre, avec un champ de sable h

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. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. 36 Garde7is for Small Country Houses. CHAPTER V.-A GARDEN IN WEST SURREY. Poor Soil—No Definite Plan— Paved Court with Tank and Steps—Colour in Flower- borders—Woodland Paths— Thunder-house. FIFTEEN acres of the poorest possible soil, sloping a little down towards the north, in the Surrey hills. A thin skin of peaty earth on the upper part, with a natural growth of heath, whortleberry and bracken, where a wood of Scotch fir had been cut some twelve years before; the middle part a chestnut plantation, the lower, a poor, sandy field with a hard plough-bed about eight inches down. These were the conditions that had to be considered and adapted as well as might be to the making of a garden. In the upper, heathy part, seedlings of many kinds of trees were springing up, now fair-sized examples of twenty-five years' growth. As time went on they had to be severely thinned and at the same time thrown into carefully-con- sidered groups, one kind of tree at a time being given pre-eminence. A clearing in the chestnut copse gave space for the "future lawn, house and near garden. The lower ground was deeply trenched and heavilv manured for many years, and is now a productive kitchen garden. Much of the ground had to be laid out, in some kind of way, before it was known where the house was to stand, with the result that there are portions that meet at awkward angles. In fact, there was no definite planning at the beginning. Various parts were taken in hand at different times and treated on their individual merits, and the whjle after- wards reconciled as might most suitably be contrived. The only portion with a definite plan is a small paved court between two wings of the house and a double flight of steps enclosing a. FIG. 42.—THE TANK AND STEPS. VIEW POINT " b" ON GENERAL PLAN (fIG. 44). tank, a 11 forming one. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been

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