44 COME INTO THE GARDEN 



omit the careful drawing of this plan, there- 

 fore, exact and to true scale, before another 

 line is drawn. It may seem an unnecessary 

 task at first thought to take such pains, espe- 

 cially if the house is built and you are thor- 

 oughly familiar with its layout; but house and 

 garden are to be a unit, each complementing 

 the other. Remember this; and remember that 

 the one preeminent means of unification is the 

 axis. Without an exact plan on paper no axes 

 are possible, however familiar you may be with 

 the house plan; hence no means is provided 

 for wedding the outdoors to indoors. Even the 

 single axis, however, which a window or door 

 or portico may furnish, gives immediate solidity 

 and the strength of unity. Keep the need of 

 this in mind and spare no pains to secure it. 



The first three of these designs are not formal 

 in the sense of being symmetrical, it will be 

 noticed, though the second approaches sym- 

 metry. The reason for this is the lack of sym- 

 metry in the house plans from which they spring. 

 Always it must be house first; then, from this, 

 rationally and conveniently and harmoniously, 

 the garden. 



