FORMAL GARDEN 
15. Color effects, where attempted, are better developed along 
the boundaries, in walls, hedges or border plantings, than in the in- 
terior spaces. 
16. Details of architecture and sculpture must of course be 
kept consistent throughout the garden. Simple and classical forms 
are usually to be preferred. So-called ‘“‘rustic’”’ works are seldom 
appropriate. 
Illustration 
Figure 70 represents a formal garden in approximately its 
simplest terms. A dwelling house bounds the garden on the east 
with hedges on north and south and a high wooden fence on the 
west end (Rule 4). The major axis lies lengthwise of the garden 
and the minor axis bisects this at right angles (Rules 6 and 7). 
These axes are terminated by the dwelling house door, the arched 
gateway, the bird-bath and the seat (Rules 10, 11, 13). These 
terminal features are sketched in Figures 71, 72, 73 and 74. 
Another formal garden, a much more elaborate example, is 
shown in Figure 75. This is the famous formal garden at “‘ Faulkner 
Farm,” Brookline, Massachusetts, and was designed by Mr. Charles 
A. Platt, of New York. The main terminal feature, on the main 
axis opposite the dwelling, consists of a beautiful summer house 
connected with a pergola or peristyle. 
Problems 
The pupil should look up other plans and photographs of formal 
gardens, all of which should be examined in detail to see how nearly 
they conform to or how far they depart from the rules given in this 
lesson. The pupil must of course consider for himself how far such 
studies confirm the rules. 
The most valuable studies in this lesson, however, will be possible 
if the pupil is able to visit one or more formal gardens, especially if 
he is so fortunate as to gain admittance to good gardens designed 
by competent landscape architects and developed by owners of 
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