The Rectilinear System 



The small garden, as I indicated in my preface, 

 is a thing apart. 



Whatever may be attempted in the garden 

 of the mansion, where landscape gardening, so- 

 called, is put into practice, is out of place in the 

 tiny plots with which I am here concerned. 



The limits of the villa garden are only too 

 obvious. Its boundaries are always in evidence, 

 and its size is so restricted that our first care 

 should be to accord it treatment which may 

 serve to make its squareness and small dimen- 

 sions not too conspicuous. 



Such treatment must be based upon a studied 

 simplicity, and the discreet use of straight lines. 

 At first thought this may seem paradoxical, 

 for one naturally associates the straight line 

 with something formal ; but in reality, when 

 we consider the matter more carefully, it 

 becomes evident that what I have termed 



