78 LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



(1) without mucli deviation. This brings the cir- 

 culation near to points 2 and 3, which may be con- 

 nected without much trouble. Point 4 is not im- 

 portant enough to warrant the deflection of the 

 path between points 1, and consequently it has 

 been given a separate communication. The same 

 principles have been followed in the laying out of 

 Figure C. 



A garden may be so designed as to become a part 

 of the household for use as a sort of outdoor room 

 (Pigs. 9 and 53). A room of any description 

 must be more or less formal in its bounding lines, 

 and if too great a change is experienced in passing 

 from the house to the garden, there will be no feel- 

 ing of unity. Consequently a garden of this sort 

 is bound to bear the stamp of the formal type. If 

 the garden is considered by itself as one of a num- 

 ber of areas, however, it may be informal, but its 

 type will none the less surely be decided by the 

 limiting conditions of the problem. 



After the circulation is settled, comes the loca- 

 tion of the utilitarian and esthetic planting, and 

 the question of position and extent. The utilita- 

 rian planting is placed where it will achieve its 

 greatest economic usefulness, and the esthetic 

 where it will give the greatest amount of pleasure; 



