108 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND v to this is recommended by William Lawson. The terrace next the house was either gravelled or paved. A splendid instance of a paved terrace, the full width of the garden, existed at Longleat, and several others are shown in Kip. Besides the terrace next the house,… … Fig. 21. — Hales Place.1 end of the garden. In the earlier gardens of the seventeenth century this was almost invariably done. In the gardens described and figured by Markham and Lawson, the " mount," or raised walk at the end of the garden, with garden- houses at either end, was an indispensable…
