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through narrow openings, or certain partial views over the surround- 

 ing screen, need not, necessarily, spoil the sense of segregation of the 

 garden. 



Or, there may be a screen along only a part of the boundary. The 

 garden may, for instance, be limited by a retaining wall or bank on one 

 side, over which a view may be had into another area to which the 

 garden is related as a part of the same schematic composition, or into 

 a distant landscape, related to the garden scheme only in some less 

 obvious way. The segregation in this case may be sufficiently expressed 

 by the obvious difficulty of access across the retaining wall or bank 

 from the garden to the lower level beyond. Such an arrangement may 

 allow a visual relation of the garden to other units, without destroying 

 the feeling of unity of the garden itself. The garden may conceivably 

 serve as a foreground for the scene beyond, the enframement which 

 directly and physically incloses the garden serving as the frame of a 

 picture, the central interest of which is the view outside of the garden. 

 Or the area outside the boundary' may make much less appeal to the 

 attention than does the garden within, and so the garden may gain a 

 sense of ampleness and freedom while still remaining the center of in- 

 terest of the whole scene. The result particularly to be avoided is, 

 of course, such an arrangement of the composition that the attention 

 wanders from one area to another of a different effect, without settling 

 upon some one as dominant in the design. 



Again, exceptionally, the garden may be inclosed, not by any con- 

 tinuous line, but by a series of separate objects : a colonnade, a row 

 of tree trunks bearing overarching foliage, a row of clipped evergreens. 

 Where such a boundary lies at right angles to the line of sight, it di- 

 versifies the view but does not entirely interrupt it ; where the line 

 of separate objects lies nearly parallel to the line of sight, they may be 

 so foreshortened one upon another in perspective as to form a complete 

 screen : a double function in design which is at times extremely de- 

 sirable, and which is not, of course, at all confined to the garden in its 

 application. 



Almost any one will agree that a garden is an area which contains Plants in the 

 plants. We do hear of a "garden of colored sands," even a "garden ^'^''^^^ 

 of statuary," but here the term is really used, for lack of a better, to 



