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By the way, the development of the " den " 

 as a part of a modern house is most significant : 

 it is a protest against the "spare room" and all 

 meaningless conventionality and unnaturalness. 



The garden room. 



The room of which I am thinking is com- 

 monly known as a garden. I am not now 

 considering so much the landscape part of the 

 place, with its plan of lawn and trees and 

 borders : this is a part of the general architec- 

 ture of the establishment, a kind of foundation 

 on which the builded building rests. The 

 landscape garden will naturally comport with 

 the style and "feeling" of the architecture of 

 the place as a whole, secluded if the house is 

 secluded, bold, or homelike. Too often, I 

 fear, the American yard is likely to resemble 

 the literature of the period, in being striking, 

 curious, or wonderful. Often it is of the look- 

 at-me kind, made to be stared at, as a street 

 sign, resplendent in its paint, is to be stared at. 



It is not the " front yard " or the " spare 

 room " that gives the real character to the 



