82 THE LANDSCAPE GARDENING BOOK 



floor at least, there are no windows. The rooms overlook their 

 own garden only, betraying a fine indifference to the vulgar 

 things of the street. Indeed they go further; they carefully 

 exclude them. And admittance to the grounds is obtained only 

 upon the summons of the bell at the garden gate or door. 

 Truly these are gardens to live in, gardens with an air about 

 them, even though they are small, and cramped by city 

 conditions. 



A wooden arch or a lattice-trellis whereon vines may climb is 

 about the simplest cover for a gateway. And winter and sum- 

 mer it is attractive, if kept trim and neat ; but this is a gate 

 treatment which seems to conform only to a certain type of 

 house, and it always has an out-of -place look unless such a house 

 lies beyond it. It is a part of the white paint and green shutters 

 epoch, of the exact perfection of box borders and Colonial door- 

 yards. It must be painted white, like the house, to look right ; 

 and it belongs above the picket gate in a spotless, straight and 

 precise picket fence. So this, though an easy way of securing a 

 desired result, is not a very generally available one. For pure 

 Colonial architecture is not common. 



Gates with hooded roofs suit admirably the informal and un- 

 conventional lines of houses of the half-timbered, bungalow and 

 craftsman type, and have great, and as yet almost entirely un- 

 developed, possibilities. Executed in the same wood as that 

 used in the house construction, stained the same color, they may 

 have either a shingled or a thatched roof. The latter seems 

 actually appropriate to only rustic conditions however, and to 

 the general surroundings where such construction may be in- 

 dulged in. The gate itself in such a structure naturally will 

 conform to the rest of the structure. 



For the entrance through a rough stone wall these hooded 



