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seen — a very creditable little vista for a small 

 garden. 



The house does not connect direct with this 

 long axis, but it is sufficiently united with the 

 garden generally through the lines of the broad 

 walk leading from this to its steps; also by the 

 locating of the bird bath at the point of inter- 

 section of the sitting-room axis with the trans- 

 verse axis of the dooryard. A lattice extending 

 across to the boundary at the rear and spanning 

 the main walk with an arch, further draws 

 house and garden together. 



The entire garden is inclosed with a plastered 

 wall made on a wood and galvanized wire lath 

 framework, supported between brick piers. 

 This is level on top and runs from a height of 

 six feet in front to about eight in the rear, owing 

 to the pitch of the land. It starts at the front 

 corner of the house rather than on the boundary 

 line, thus allowing space for the service entrance 

 to pass along between the house and the bound- 

 ary. This brings the service gate admitting 

 to the garden at the rear of the house, where the 

 wall completes its course at the house corner 

 again and ends. 



Here is the design in all its salient features, 

 simple, restful, unusual, and yet not in the least 

 startling. The most radical thing about it is the 



