PRAY, HUBBARD, AND WHITE 



another five steps bring us up to the house level. 

 This turn and the shrubbery around it hide one 

 flight of steps from the other and the level piece 

 of ground between breaks into two short flights 

 what might have been one tiresome as well as 

 tiring flight of steps. Once on the house level 

 the walk runs along the whole front of the house. 

 Not only is this arrangement of the walk direct and 

 attractive in itself but it makes possible a consider- 

 able space of unbroken lawn between the walk 

 and the fence along the unpaved road. This solu- 

 tion seems so simple and appropriate that all the 

 care, labor, and study put into the planning for 

 grading, for construction of wall work and steps 

 is entirely lost to mind. It should be so. All 

 study should be hidden behind seemingly un- 

 studied naturalness. Such fundamental planning, 

 to which the planting, so important in itself, is 

 added as a decorative feature, displays the in- 

 genuity of the landscape architect and shows the 

 practicability of employing him. 



The path is laid in brick. Brick pavements 

 have a permanent decorative quality and a warm 

 color which is of special value in the winter effec- 

 tiveness of a garden. At the end of the path 

 stands an old Maple. It is a piece of rare good 



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