THE SMALL PLACE 



minor details which will give new interest to the 

 garden without disturbing its old vigor and its 

 stable and constant arrangement. 



The oval is Box bordered and then girt by a ten- 

 foot strip of gravel. Although we had carefully- 

 studied the plan of the entire layout beforehand, 

 we had been altogether unconscious through- 

 out the long and minute inspection of the oval, 

 that the gravel strip was a turn-around. A turn- 

 around is so much a matter for practical considera- 

 tions, a flower garden is so much a striving for an 

 ideal, and the two seem so antagonistic that they 

 are almost always placed entirely apart from one 

 another. It is at best, even for so small a place 

 where the drive turn is in little use, a difficult 

 problem and a combination which is to be avoided. 

 In this case, however, the harmonizing of these 

 two opposing factors strikes not only a clever and 

 original note in garden composition but shows a 

 serious understanding of garden art. 



Besides developing the principal feature of a 

 place there is often a possibility of combining 

 with it a number of other scenes of special charac- 

 ter. By the addition of the neighboring property, 



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