THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 11 
and simple curves; and alongside the walks, especially in an- 
gles or bold curves, planting may be inserted. 
A suggestion for school premises on a four-corners, and 
which the pupils enter from three directions, is made in Fig. 4. 
The two playgrounds are separated by a broken group of 
bushes extending from the building to the rear boundary; 
but, in general, the spaces are kept open, and the heavy 
border-masses clothe 
the place and make _ | [ 
it home-like. The Road 
lineal extent of the a 
group margins is as- 
tonishingly large, 
and along all these 
margins flowers may 
be planted, if de- 
sired. 
If there is only 
six feet between a 
schoolhouse and the 
fence, there is still 
room for a border of 
shrubs. This border 
should be between 4, Suggestion for a school-ground on a four- 
the walk and the pater 
fence, — on the very boundary, —not between the walk and 
the building, for in the latter case the planting divides the 
premises and weakens the effect. A space two feet wide will 
allow of an irregular wall of bushes, if tall buildings do not cut 
out the light; and if the area is one hundred feet long, thirty 
to fifty kinds of shrubs and flowers can be grown to perfection, 
and the school-grounds will be practically no smaller for the 
plantation. 
One cannot make a plan of a place until he knows what he 
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