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demanded harmony; others insist upon con- 

 trast; others still look upon gardening as a 

 form of architecture, maintaining that a gar- 

 den is merely the extension of a house into its 

 surroundings. A house, if it be more than a 

 shelter over your head, must have a definite 

 character. There must be a thought dominat- 

 ing its designs. In our house that thought is 

 openness to sunshine and fresh air and delight- 

 ful living. The best rooms look out on the 

 garden and take in its aroma and its floods of 

 sunlight. 



Our garden's relation to the house was not 

 an afterthought, but a vital part of the unity 

 plan. The house and garden are one. Sir 

 William Temple wrote : "The garden ought to 

 be like one of the rooms out of which you step 

 into another larger." William Morris said: 

 "One's garden should look like a part of the 

 house." A corollary fact to this house and 

 garden relation is, that the garden must not 

 only be appropriate to the house, but to the 

 situation on which it rests. What is suitable to 

 the hillside will not befit the plain, what is be- 

 coming to the classic mansion would be out of 

 place for the picturesque house. And yet the 

 lines must not be too rigidly drawn, for there 

 are certain features in the living home and liv- 



