LITTLE GARDENS 



Fig. 28. 



bench, a font, a small rockery: nothing of exactly 

 equal size, not anything in kind, because two 

 pieces of sculpture would be too many for a 

 single yard, and it would be carrying formal- 

 Ism to monotony to repeat one corner in its 

 opposite. 



In this device are two vistas, and we require 

 something at the end of each. If the statue be 

 placed at B, then the semllunes that flank it, and 

 that end the paths, can be filled with flowering 

 shrubs of some size and showlness, not forget- 

 ting that the statue Itself will require greenery, 

 for white and green make the one brisk contrast 

 that Is esthetic. Its pedestal will be high enough 

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