IV 



jARMONY between the home- 

 grounds and the outer land- 

 scape will not alone suffice to 

 make a country-place a beauti- 



ful picture. To complete this picture there 

 must be harmony between the grounds and 

 the house itself. And all the more distant 

 devices of the gardener will not effect this 

 unless its walls seem integrally united to 

 Mother Earth. 



With the architect as he develops a de- 

 sign appropriate to the given situation and 

 the owner's needs, or as, in consultation 

 with the landscape-gardener, he determines 

 the site of the house, we are not just now 

 concerned. But it is also the architect who 

 must take the first step toward well uniting 

 walls and ground if the planter is afterward 

 to j)6rfect the union. Sometimes he must 

 prepare for terraces or other semi -architec- 

 tural accompaniments : and always he must 



