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Plan of the Garden of Mr. Aymar Embury II, 

 Architect, Englewood, New Jersey 



and makes for repose and spaciousness; an all-over pattern, on the 

 other hand, is apt to be less pleasing for reasons which are hard to 

 analyze. Perhaps because it tends to be complicated and rest- 

 less, perhaps because it easily becomes cramped in feeling — in any 

 case it is well to make paths wide and beds spacious at the ex- 

 pense of numbers in such a garden, for nothing so reduces the 

 apparent size of a garden as paths that are too narrow. 



Three examples of the central stretch of turf type of garden, 

 each one differently handled, are Mr. Marshall Fry's, Mr. 

 Michael Jenkins', and Mr. Jonathan Godfrey's gardens. Each 

 one of these, I venture to say, would seem smaller and less repose- 

 ful if the same spaces were covered all over with flower beds and 



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