LITTLE GARDENS 



which can be varied to any extent, has for Its 

 object the partial screening of the distance, so 

 that the eye merely guesses at a beyond which 

 isn't there, or Is a different sort of beyond from 

 one that you prefer to guess. The eye travels 

 along a path that loses Itself among syrlngas and 

 lilacs, from whatever point near the house you 

 may view it. The object of a path hke that Is 

 rather to Invite your eyes than your feet, for Its 

 windings suggest that It rambles on indefinitely. 

 If your neighbor, dos a dos, falls in with this 

 device, and will plant a few trees at the back of 

 his yard, so that your forests adjoin one another, 

 save fox" the fence (and If you are good friends 

 that need no more stand In your way than if it 

 were the constitution), your wild properties be- 

 come almost Impressive In extent. The objec- 

 tions to the plan are that it Is much broken — 

 cluttered, the housewife may say — and that grass 

 will not grow well under trees, for It demands 

 sun; but It has the advantage that It offers medi- 

 tative walks, and a chair or bench or hammock 

 placed under the trees, or in the arbor, permits 

 you to enjoy a book, or the cool and fragrance 

 of the evening, or the warmth and perfume of 



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