VII 



REPRODUCING THE OLD-FASH- 

 IONED GARDEN 



EACH and every place offers its peculiar problems. 

 Even each of the typical suburban units of to-day 

 the plot fifty by one hundred feet in size has its 

 individual requirements, limitations and possibilities. 

 So it is quite impossible to give plans with any expec- 

 tation of their being practically available, or even re- 

 motely suggestive, in more than a single instance here 

 and there, perhaps. For garden plans are much less 

 isolated units than house plans. They depend of 

 necessity upon the house plan in the first place; and 

 next they depend upon surroundings, and restrictions, 

 and all the innumerable things which do not come 

 within the control even of the owner of any piece of 

 property, large or small. 



Instead of offering plans, therefore, which might not 

 prove of the slightest help to a single individual in 

 developing his own problem, I feel that it may be more 

 practicable to classify and bring out, in brief compara- 



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