262 LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



which includes the house and its appurtenances, the house terrace 

 and a formally arranged garden. A pergola or vine arbor may run 

 out from the side of the house, dominating and bounding one side of 

 the garden, and terminating in a shelter, which on one side looks back 

 into the inclosed peacefulness of the garden and on the other overlooks 

 a distant view. Or a shelter may form the dominant feature at the 

 end of the garden away from the house, terminating the main view into 

 the garden, and echoing the architectural effect of the house. Or, 

 in a scheme which contains long vistas or enframed formal views, the 

 terminal feature may be a structure which may serve also other pur- 

 poses of pleasure or use. 



These shelters, or pavilions, or gazebos, or summer-houses, or 

 whatever we please to call them, will be fixed as to their minimum 

 size by their absolute scale ; that is, by their relation to the size 

 of a man. They must be large enough to give a reasonable height 

 for a man to stand in and a reasonable space for several people to 

 sit about in. 



When one of these structures forms a part of the wall of a garden 

 which also relates to a house, we have the question of relative scale 

 between the house and the shelter. If the garden is small and the shelter 

 is in scale with it, it is obvious that there is danger of having the little 

 shelter overpowered by the size of the house. In other words, there 

 will come a point, as we reduce the size of our scheme, where we shall 

 be obliged to choose as an object to decorate our inclosure of the gar- 

 den, or terminate a vista, not a shelter, but an arch or doorway or a 

 hooded seat, or something of that kind, which can be small without being 

 out of scale, and without being apparently in hopeless competition 

 with the mass of the house. It is generally true that there will be 

 certain kinds of things which we can use as dominant objects or as some- 

 thing to attract attention, if our scheme is of a certain size ; but if our 

 scheme is of considerably different size, then the range of objects we 

 must choose for the same purpose will be different. We shall find our- 

 selves dealing in one case with sundials, gazing globes, tables, seats ; 

 in another case with arched openings, hooded seats, small flights of 

 steps ; and in a larger scale with shelters, gazebos, pergolas, garden 

 temples, and such structures of relatively greater importance. 



