THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



gardens must of necessity be individual. 

 The elaborate manor house of princely 

 proportions, if designed after the Italian 

 lines of architecture, will best be served 

 by a garden modelled on the same lines. 

 Many of us may not care to live in such 

 a palatial house, but we must admire its 

 architectural significance and acknowledge 

 the appropriateness of its terraced gardens 

 built on broad lines with flowers occupy- 

 ing a position of secondary importance to 

 ornamental accessories of stone and marble. 



In contrast to this we have the simple 

 little garden of the modest suburban home, 

 - a garden that should be as serviceable as 

 one of the rooms of the house. It is as 

 fitting a place for garden accessories as its 

 more pretentious contemporary, only they 

 must be of the simple type. 



Those who claim that American gardens 

 should be of the naturalistic type wherein 

 it is bad taste to have anything except 

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