LITTLE GARDENS 



It Is but rudely Indicated In these lines, of course, 

 but they will help to explain my meaning: 



I will suppose the space, then, to be forty 

 by a hundred feet. It shall be commanded by 

 a house In which the architectural lines will not 

 be extinguished by a mask of brick, but will show 

 timber beams and braces, latticed windows and 

 vines reaching above Its first story. The wide, 

 low windows giving on the yard shall often be 

 left open, for the view, the perfume and the cool- 

 ness. The ground shall be quite surrounded by 

 a brick wall eight feet high, for this is my cloister 

 of evening meditation. There Is plenty of world 

 outside, and I shall see It often, but here I with- 

 draw from It. A brick wall Is cold and trite? 

 So It would be if we left it at that, merely; but 

 there are to be a stone coping and borders of 

 half bricks affording a strong and gritty edge 

 to the construction; there Is to be a paneled base; 

 there are to be a dozen terra-cotta Insets with con- 

 ventional ornament, like an acanthus-leaf, or any 

 such, while at C there is to be an alcove a foot 

 or more deep and three feet high, to contain 

 some rare exotic, or perhaps no more than an 

 urn of stone. Should I have more land, the wall 

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