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paratively small, and throwing them all together into 

 one lawn is thought to make a better display of what- 

 ever beauty they may possess, or that may be added 

 to them by planting trees and shrubs and flowers. 

 But it will be found on studying the situation in the 

 light of the laws of landscape design that a number of 

 these buildings, included together and owned by per- 

 sons of diverse interests and tastes, will not lend them- 

 selves successfully to one landscape scheme. The 

 variety of human interests create contrasts and con- 

 tradictions that will not come into harmony with each 

 other on account of the "personal equation," the 

 difference of make-up of the owners. Theoretically it 

 is a beautiful idea and seems practicable, but to obtain 

 a really artistic effect in this way, no, it is not likely 

 to be done. People may fancy they have lawns with 

 many houses and owners, in one great enclosure, that is 

 satisfactory, but the probability is that they do not 

 know a well-designed lawn when they see it, and think 

 they have something which they have not. 



The intimate way of treating the small home will 

 really commend itself to everyone who is not led away by 

 the influence of a caprice or fashion. It gives the surest 

 way of securing the most comfort and pleasure for the 

 dweller under his own vine and fig tree. With wire fence 

 covered with vines entirely, or a rough wall of stone, 

 quarry stone, imcut, with the interstices devoid of ce- 

 ment and filled with rich earth and rock plants, stone- 

 crop, prickly pear, and other rock plants, the home be- 

 comes one's very own. Flowers cluster around the base 



