THE SMALL PLACE 



platform useful for cleaning the machines. The 

 small grove of old White Pines is especially pic- 

 turesque in relation to the garage which it shades. 

 The service court is also used as a laundry yard. 

 This combination is excellent economy of space for 

 small properties. 



From the service court a narrow service road 

 runs between vegetable plot and formal garden to a 

 side entrance. The main street is so very steep 

 that it is desirable to have even a slightly less steep 

 service road. The rose garden is treated more as a 

 cut-flower garden than as a garden for ornamental 

 purposes. In this capacity it subordinates itself 

 to the main garden and ranks more with the 

 vegetable garden. The vegetable plot is at so 

 much lower level that although it is in easy com- 

 munication with the rest of the grounds it stands 

 quite apart. The service road and the steep grade 

 so effectively divide the vegetable and rose gardens 

 from the grounds immediately around the house 

 that while they are molded into the general 

 scheme it would be quite possible to omit them 

 entirely without losing any sense of the general 

 unity which the arrangement of lawn, drive, 

 service court, and garden gives to the grounds. 

 The extreme western portion of the property 



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