40 COME INTO THE GARDEN 



mality. They must conform to the general 

 spirit of order. 



Rightly conceived, the garden is in the na- 

 ture of an outdoor extension of the house. 

 Every house requires a certain amount of gar- 

 den treatment to make its presence on the face 

 of the earth anything but an impertinence; for 

 the hard and definite lines created with man's 

 compass and square are antagonistic to every 

 impulse of nature and the natural outdoors, and 

 must be led up to gradually and insinuatingly, 

 if harmony between man's work and nature's 

 is ever to be attained. The charm of the an- 

 cient house is largely owing to the loss of this 

 acute and hard precision of line and form oc- 

 casioned by its settling and yielding to Time — 

 a very subtle and inappreciable loss in the case 

 of well-preserved buildings, yet distinctly effec- 

 tive in the bringing together of artificial and 

 natural. Similarly, the thatch roof, either new 

 or old, is a wonderful harmonizer, partly be- 

 cause of its gracious lines and partly because 

 of its crude natural material, topping and over- 

 shadowing the walls that are so artificial. 



From the house, therefore, the garden is to 

 work out in its several directions, to the outer 

 limits or boundary of the plot. Hence it is 

 from the house that the start must be made 



