THE SMALL PLACE 



Each part has a feeling of breadth and bigness, 

 for the design is worked out on simple and 

 straightforward lines. 



The house has a simple plan. The front and 

 back of the main portion are very similar with 

 a central doorway flanked on both sides by two 

 windows. To one side of the main portion is the 

 porch, on the other side the service wing. 



The central doorway encourages the balanced 

 design of the gardens as it necessitates a strong 

 axis line. Upon it are arranged three interestingly 

 varied parts. Just outside the door is a little 

 courtlike place. It is hedged with clipped 

 Privet and paved with old brick laid herringbone. 

 Pyramidal Box bushes flank the doorway and 

 Hollyhocks are growing up by the side of the 

 windows. On either side are very simple wooden 

 benches and in back of each stands a standard 

 globe-shaped Privet. These clipped curiosities 

 are becoming very common in nurseries and are 

 being very much misused and overused. It is 

 safest to avoid them altogether. Occasionally, 

 however, such oddities have a place in strictly 

 formal positions as in this little hedged off place 

 near the house. Outside the hedge — still centered 



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