THE PLAN 17 



The only garden plan published in this book, given for the 

 reason that it is without doubt one of the best arrangements for 

 restricted areas that one could find, is that of a charming small 

 place near Boston. A few pages back I tried to set forth in words 

 the plan of a little garden in which grass, fruit, flowers, and 

 vegetables were provided by spacing them one beyond another, 

 from the rear of the house to the rear of the lot. The garden now 

 to be considered has a totally different arrangement. The flower- 

 and vegetable-gardens flank the central turf, flowers to the right 

 and vegetables to the left; and the logic of this is seen as the gen- 

 eral proportion of the property is noticed. The house, L-shaped, 

 with its wing to the south, stands perhaps forty feet from the 

 sidewalk, in ground measuring roughly seventy feet by one 

 hundred and ten. A straight walk leads from sidewalk to entrance 

 porch, and opposite this porch stepping-stones take one to a 

 sundial on a circular paved platform. Turning here sharply to 

 the left, this walk of stepping-stones runs to the southwest, about 

 ten feet within the boundary line of the place, connecting with a 

 brick walk. This walk, flanked by flower spaces, continues to the 

 entrance to the narrow garden south of the lawn at the rear of 

 the house, when stepping-stones again are used for a walk 

 straight through the garden, broken only by a bird-bath on a 

 paved platform of stone. This long walk, now of stone, now of 

 brick, now of stone again, is the axis upon which hinge the flower- 

 beds south of the house and the small formal garden beyond. 



Opposite this small flower-garden, across the lawn to the left, 

 is the space given over to the vegetable garden. This, too, has 

 its long walk, connecting with a brick service-walk to the left. 

 The two walks and the two gardens are in delightful balance as 

 regards each other; and the two gardens, as may be seen, are 

 perfectly tied to each other by a belt of high shrubs at the far end 

 of the oblong of turf, and by a generous planting of shrubs and 



