LITTLE GARDENS 



Fig. 



the yard, that they may be seen more readily 

 from the lower windows. As a terrace pertains 

 to formal gardens, we can use a little more strict- 

 ness of form here than we might wish to apply to 

 a level, and the upper portion, being pedestaled 

 into a certain adventitious dignity, we can use 

 a fountain at A, or a statue under an arch of 

 roses at B, with less compunction than if they 

 were just under the clothes-lines. 



It sometimes happens that the back of the 

 yard abuts on a lower terrain, in which case you 

 will be constantly losing real estate to your neigh- 

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