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principal views are usually obtained from points on the public road. 

 If they are so placed they should be made as inconspicuous as pos- 

 sible either by screen plantings or in some other manner. 



An ornamental garden may be either formal (fig. 36) or informal, 

 but in either case it should be regarded, as. part of the house and its 

 activities, not as its principal setting. It comes closer into the family 

 life if it is on the side of the house away from the public entrance 

 and is near to the living porch, so that it is easily entered from the 

 porch. It should be included whenever the family tastes and circum- 

 stances permit the expenditure of the extra labor involved. 



Such a garden may be simple, involving little work, or it may be 

 elaborate. It should be the most definite expression of the family 



FIG. 37. A lawu with irregular outlines. 



tastes. A place for such a garden should be provided 011 the plan, 

 but it may be left in lawn until the time comes for its development. 



Probably the greatest enjoyment of such a garden comes in its 

 gradual making. The first step can be the planting of shrubbery 

 borders to inclose it, followed the next year by the cutting of a few 

 beds near the borders or at carefully selected points in the turf of 

 the garden floor. By such steps it can progress until an intricate 

 garden is completed, w r ith its numerous beds and turf or gravel 

 walks, or the garden may be left with a turf panel and narrow beds 

 partially or entirely inclosed by shrubbery borders. Walks, arbors, 

 seats, a summer house, or a pool may be incorporated if fancy dic- 

 tates. Here personal taste may find free expression with less re- 



