The Choice of a Site 9 



that all of it should be comprehended in 

 a single view no matter whether the area 

 be large or small. 



What constitutes a good site is well il- 

 lustrated by one of the existing American 

 rock gardens. The place is large, and in 

 the rear of the house the grounds are level 

 for a considerable distance and then drop 

 with a fairly steep bank to a driveway, 

 below which another terrace leads to a 

 meadow. Instead of being continuous, 

 however, the bank above the driveway is 

 broken by a little glen, seemingly leading 

 nowhere, but actually an entrance to both 

 the rear lawn and the formal garden. In 

 this glen is the rock garden, or rather the 

 main part of it. Though bounded on the 

 north it runs east and west by the 

 formal garden and on the south by the 

 lawn, the rock garden can be seen from 

 neither of these, nor from the house. It 



