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enjoyable feature that can be constructed on the 

 grounds. Its design, size, situation and type, must 

 correspond with the period of the garden. A for- 

 mal lay-out should, in order to be correct, receive 

 entirely different treatment in its setting from the 

 Italian, while the rambling depends upon simpler 

 characteristics to produce correct results. Rustic 

 tea houses fit into this project appropriately. They 

 would be entirely incongruous if placed in Italian 

 gardens elaborate in their plan and full of wonder- 

 ful bits of marble fragments transplanted from 

 foreign lands. 



Fortunately for us, there are so many different 

 types of gardens that one is not continually finding 

 a repetition. Garden houses, covered with bark, 

 fit into simple plans, such as the rambling and the 

 wild gardens, their rustic effect being in harmony 

 with the flowers and beds. 



It is one thing to plan a summer house but quite 

 another to pick out a suitable situation. It should 

 not be placed in the heart of the flowers more es- 

 pecially where there are tall blossoms. Let the beds 

 in the foreground be low and show quiet colors, 

 shading the height and brightness as they go 

 farther afield, the most conspicuous being used 



