234 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 



flowers, to which all architectural devices should be sub- 

 ordinated and kept entirely tributary. 



While convenience and ease should always receive due 

 consideration, it must be remembered that what, after 

 all, constitutes the real square is the grass and shrubs 



SMALL TRIANGULAR PARK IN CITY OR TOWN, WITH PLAYGROUND AND 

 WALK. (CANAL STREET PARK, N. Y.) 



and shade trees, and that without these we cannot imag- 

 ine reasons for a square being improved as a park. It 

 may be a promenade, a court-yard, or a number of other 

 things that are pure architecture, or anything one pleases, 

 but these are surely not parks. That is why we should 



