VI. Planting Plan. 



The suggested treatment of a neighboring plot the same 

 size with a house of altogether different character is given, 

 for comparison. The owner's desire in this instance is not 

 so fixed upon the growth of useful things, owing to his ab- 

 sence during a large part of the summer. The house is cen- 

 tered on the plot, consequently there is no need for estab- 

 lishing an axis. Consequently, too, the design is bound to 

 be symmetrical; hence symmetry is taken for its leading 

 note, and a still more perfect balance than already exists in 

 it is obtained by introducing the little Dutch garden in the 

 angle of upright and L at the rear. From this a walk, cor- 

 responding to the service walk opposite, leads to the ter- 

 race in front. A hedge six feet high encloses the entire 

 place, growing through and concealing a strong and im- 

 penetrable fence of galvanized wire. This hedge is carried 

 up and over the main gateway in a clipped arch, and ex- 

 tends in from this to form a low border along the walk to 

 the foot of the steps. Quite definitely the service yard is 

 set apart and screened with arborvitae, faced with a win- 

 ter shrubbery border; and a bronze piping Pan stands at 

 the rear on the axis of the living room, Dutch garden and 

 lawn. 



1. Privet hedge, Ligustrum Amurense. 



2. Flowers. 



3. Dwarf fruit trees. 



4. Faun. 



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