Gardens for Small Country Houses (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Gardens for Small Country Houses

Within eighteen months of its first issue the need has arisen to print a third edition of Gardens for Small Country Houses. This seems proof enough that the volume, concerned chiefly as it is with problems of garden design, has filled a place, hitherto empty, on the bookshelves of the garden-loving public.

The opportunity afforded by the second edition was taken to expand the introductory chapter by including in it some further examples of gardens, notable either for the apt use which has'been made of a hillside site, as at Markyate Cell and Owlpen Manor, or for the possibilities of a walled enclosure, as at Edzell, or of topiary work in a limited space, as at Bridge End, Saffron Walden. The measured drawings of these gardens which are now reproduced were not completed in time for the first edition, but their inclusion (especially in the case of the hillside examples) has added much to the practical value of the book.

For this edition fewer alterations have been made, but some further notes on plants for rock gardens have been added to Chapter XXI.

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