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THE GARDEN PLAN 



TO embark upon a successful argument our 

 premises must be sound, and before we 

 seek to lay out our garden we must make 

 sure that our starting-point the house is rightly 

 arranged for our enterprise. Let us therefore 

 retrace our steps a moment. There are sites which 

 present formidable difficulties of aspect, sloping 

 away and hidden from the sun, with their views 

 to the north, constraining us to do violence to 

 all the normal canons of design. The greater 

 number of sites will, however, allow us to place 

 our building towards the south, or a few points 

 east or west, to gain the full measure of sunlight 

 which the climate will afford. As far as possible the 

 southern, eastern, and western sides of our building 

 should be devoted to the garden ; all the best rooms, 



