CHAPTER IV 



The Rectilinear Principle 



I NOW propose to enter more intimately 

 into the practical details of garden design- 

 ing. The suburban garden is usually a rectangle. 

 Its four boundaries are straight lines, and its 

 area is so restricted that these boundaries 

 are only too obvious to the person standing 

 within them. 



The house is square at its angles, squarely 

 placed within the garden boundaries, and 

 rightly so. Thus the problem of designing 

 the details of the garden is encompassed by 

 conditions which demand special consideration. 

 We cannot ignore the fact that the skeleton 

 on which we have to build our garden plan 

 is a thing of straight lines and right angles. 

 The problem, therefore, for the garden designer 

 is to evolve a style of planning that will best 

 harmonize with these elements, which by no 

 ingenuity of contrivance can be suppressed. 



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