IG COME INTO THE GARDEN 



ancestors here, indeed, in early times, as old 

 villages in many parts of the country still bear 

 witness — through a fundamental misconception 

 of the town, village, or suburban home, its pos- 

 sibilities and its limitations. We have not re- 

 cognized that it is definitely a type, alone and 

 by itself; as distinct as the city home; widely 

 different from the country home. Right here, in- 

 deed, is just where the most serious error has 

 slipped in, for all the effort has been to treat the 

 suburban grounds along the same lines which 

 the large estate admits, to build the suburban 

 house according to the same plans from which 

 the house in the midst of acreage rises. 



So a kind of landscape gardening has been 

 attempted, in a loose fashion, to which boundary 

 fences and walls and many other rational fea- 

 tures have been sacrificed in the vain hope of 

 creating an illusion of the spaciousness and 

 splendor which the town or suburban place can- 

 not, in the very nature of things, possibly enjoy. 

 For it has its very definite limitations, fixed and 

 unalterable, of which it cannot be rid. Not until 

 these are recognized and, being recognized, are 

 turned to account in the distribution and orna- 

 mentation of its grounds, will its highest pos- 

 sibilities, both esthetic and practical, be realized. 



But in the colony established upon the pre- 



