262 LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



which includes the house and its appurtenances, the house terrace 

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

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

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

 into the inclosed peacefulness of the garden and on the other overlook: 

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

 end of the garden away from the house, terminating the main view int< 

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

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

 terminal feature may be a structure which may serve also other purri 

 poses of pleasure or use. 



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

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

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

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

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

 sit about in. 



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

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

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

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

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

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

 be obliged to choose as an object to decorate our inclosure of the ga: 

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

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

 out of scale, and without being apparently in hopeless competitio 

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

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

 thing to attract attention, if our scheme is of a certain size ; but if 01 

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

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

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

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

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

 temples, and such structures of relatively greater importance. 



