PROBLEM XIII 



A Small Property with Two Gardens, by Elizabeth 



Leonard Strang, Landscape Architect, 



Groton, Mass. 



This property is located at Plymouth, Mass. Its dimensions 

 are i6s x 150 feet 



TN the development of the small lot the attention 

 -•- is best centered upon one important feature. 

 This feature should be in full sight of the house 

 and have a close relationship to it. It should 

 have individuality and worth enough to perpetuate 

 genuine pleasure in it. It should have elasticity 

 enough to offer a chance for the expression of 

 changing and growing interests. It should have a 

 distinct originality which will grow in the hands of 

 an ingenious designer directly out of some charac- 

 ter peculiar to the site itself. 



These principles underlie the development of 

 this property. The unobtrusive low shrubbery, 

 still rather unconvincing in its newness, which is 



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