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THE COUNTRY YARD 



In the yard of the village house — not the 

 summer villa with its acres, but the country home 

 of country people — there is room for more di- 

 versity and opportunity for larger effects than in 

 town, for the yard is moderately sure to be larger 

 than that of a city house. The possibilities of 

 beauty and interest in gardens increase as the 

 squares of their area. Yet I think that the same 

 rules for garden-making hold in the country as 

 in the town, namely, that there should be sim- 

 plicity instead of extravagance, masses instead 

 of scatterings, law instead of lawlessness in re- 

 spect of color and form, and that there should 

 be a focus, or point of interest, or constructional 

 center. In the country, however, the point of 

 Interest need not be in the ground itself. If your 

 house commands a view of a conspicuous moun- 

 tain, or an expanse of lake, or a handsome clump 

 of wood, or a prospect of a village with a white 

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