14 CO]\IE INTO THE GARDEN 



In the first place, every foot of his ground 

 is available to the man whose house forms a 

 part of his boundary walls and whose boundary 

 is ivalled. If he buys forty by one hundred 

 feet, he has forty by one hundred feet to use — 

 not forty by one hundred less forty by twenty- 

 five, or one quarter of the whole, which restric- 

 tions bind him to turn over to the street, to put 

 it as actual unvarnished truth. He has space 

 for flowers, fruits, and vegetables to an unbe- 

 lievable amount — unbelievable at least to those 

 who have never thought about it or figured it 

 out or tried it — and within his own garden 

 beauty and interest and recreation and diver- 

 sion, instead of in the street. 



It is a reversal that is very complete, for in- 

 stead of a front porch overlooking the throng 

 and the dust and invaded by both, figuratively 

 in the first instance, actually in the second, this 

 outdoor room will open at the rear — or side, de- 

 pending upon the proper weather exposure, 

 which must always be the determining factor 

 — and looks over the fruits growing upon the 

 wall, the green things everywhere, flowers in 

 their trim borders, a tennis court, perhaps, or 

 a bowling green, a pool in the sunlight where 

 water lilies bloom and gold fish rest in the 

 shadows, a hammock in the distance under 



