THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 45 
they are the best, or even because they are always good enough 
for models, but because they lie in my way and illustrate what 
I desire to teach. 
A front yard example. 
We will first look at a very ordinary front yard. It con- 
tained no plants, except a pear tree standing near the corner 
37. The planting in a simple front yard. 
of the house. Four years later sees the yard as shown in Fig. 
37. An exochorda is the large bush in the very foreground, 
and the porch foundation is screened and a border is thereby 
given to the lawn. The length of this planting from end to 
end is about fourteen feet, with a projection towards the front 
on the left of ten feet. In the bay at the base of this projection 
the planting is only two feet wide or deep, and from here it 
gradually swings out to the steps, eight feet wide. The promi- 
nent large-leaved plant near the steps is a bramble, Rubus 
odoratus, very common in the neighborhood, and it is a choice 
