GARDEN BUILDINGS.

When the writer commenced this work it was not his purpose to illustrate it as freely as he has since been advised to do. He desired to suggest rather than exemplify, but at the instance of those for whose judgment he has great respect the subjoined designs are furnished. They are of no especial merit, but they are original, and are carefully projected from the plan and elevation.

In many perspective views of architectural subjects the object is tricked up in some way; greater projection being given to members than they would really have in this book the reader may rely that nothing of the kind has been attempted.

The garden seat in fig. 145 is a fit termination for a straight walk. It is more adapted for scenic effect than for use, as it is intended that the landscape should be seen between the piers. If there is no view the voids would of course be filled in; the seat would then be better protected. Seats and kiosks are by no means invariably for use any more than are vases or ornamental objects generally.

Fig. 146 represents a summer house, suited to a romantic situation at some little distance from the main house. It is unpretending in design; and contains, besides an open shaded room on the level of the ground, an upper room well glazed and protected from the weather, with the convenience of a fireplace. For a

sort of watch tower at an exposed point, commanding a good sea or land view, it would be appropriate. The

staircase can of course be placed inside instead of outside, if more desirable, and the lower story may also be glazed and furnished with a fireplace.

Fig. 147 is a pavilion or central object, which will readily adapt itself either to Grecian or Pompeian design. It is calculated for an adjunct to an elegant building in either of those styles, and is supposed to be within sight of the house.

Should it be desired to use it only as a covered seat, forming an object at the end of a single walk, three of the sides may be filled in with masonry, which

will prevent draught; or the three sides may be glazed with large sheets of plate glass, which would answer the same purpose.

This design admits of being used as a simple blind portico, projecting from a plain garden wall, by merely cutting the plan off at a convenient place as regards the pilasters or piers.

The following (fig. 148) is a pavilion intended to be seen in connexion with either Elizabethan or Stuartian

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architecture. The carving may be carried to any exThe writer has tried to keep simplicity in view in all these sketches, it being comparatively easy to supplement any amount of decoration, provided the design be good in the first instance.

This pavilion is supposed to be entered from the high level, affording a good point whence to view the garden, or prospect generally.

Under the terrace wall is a raised bed, formed by a handsome kerb of wrought stone, the mouldings of

which may be varied according to the taste of the designer; they should, however, in all cases slope back so as to allow the tendrils and drooping plants to hang gracefully over the edge.

In the centre of the lower portion of the building is a stream of water falling over moss-covered stones, and backed by ferns.

Fig. 149 is a pavilion at the corner of a terrace, but is equally fitted for a central object on the level. The

style may be described as Georgian. It admits of much more decoration than the drawing shows; it

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