II 



THE CITY YARD 



That your estate of twenty-five by sixty may 

 be a place of beauty, In truth, you will determine 

 on the form of It In the fall, so that It may come 

 Into bearing early, and so that there may be no 

 disfigurements and eliminations through the cor- 

 rection of mistakes, after It Is In flower. Let 

 your lines and forms be simple and direct, and 

 use color and foliage In masses. Instead of In de- 

 tached bits. Indeed, massing Is necessary to slm- 

 pHcIty. Put like with like, and aim for broad 

 effects, rather than for diversity. Be formal 

 rather than negligent, but do not carry formality 

 to fantasy and grotesqueness. And here another 

 problem offers : Shall we make a formal garden 

 where all the surroundings are formal, or shall 

 we seek to offset formality by lines of grace and 

 freedom ? I grow more and more to believe that 

 we must civilize our surroundings when we break 

 away from nature so completely as we must in 

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