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property chosen as will accommodate not only the buikiing itself 

 but the o-arden as well, in order that the two mav be treated as a 

 unit and the garden continue the lines of the house. 



Preferably it should continue them awav from the road or en- 

 trance side of the house in order to catch something of the remote 

 feeling which belongs to woods and fields, and will not co-exist 

 with automobiles and deliver\' wagons. These necessities should 

 be provided for in such a wa\' as to leave one side of the house free 

 for garden, and as much of the grounds as possible unbroken bv 

 road ; which means that foreth(night must be brought to bear when 

 the house is being planned and such details settled as the position 

 of the furnace, so that the finished house will not be discovered 

 with a coal window accessible onlv through the flower garden, or 

 a garage occupying the best possible outlook from the living-room 

 windows. Nine times out of ten on a place too small to provide 

 room for tucking the garage and outbuildings awav out of sight 

 from the house, these buildings will group advantageously near 

 the kitchen wing, even form a part of the same structure by the 

 use of such connecting features as grape arbors or trellis or the 

 much-misused pergola. An arrangement bv which the service 

 portions of a place are kept together automatically guarantees 

 one or more sides of the house open for la^n or garden, or both, 

 and makes for convenience as well. 



But with the wisdom of this plan admitted, it is often no easy 

 thing to so place the group on the ground as to make it accessible 

 from the street with any beauty or dignity of approach, not to 

 mention ease and convenience. 



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