The Garden Magazine, March, 1921 
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THE PATH THAT LEADS FROM THE PORCH 
The house and garden are directly connected by the 
main path which centres on the porch steps and the 
living-room window. (Point C on the general plan) 
and still give the big Apple tree its due place in 
the existing rectangle which was so obviously 
the place for the garden. 
The solution shows the tree just off centre of 
the grass panel, but with enough spread of foliage 
so that the balance falls in the centre of the 
garden. There was no attempt made to put 
the grass panel on axis with a part of the house 
or to include it in the house view except by 
glimpses. The house is directly connected with 
the garden by the entrance path which is on a 
line with the porch steps and the living-room 
window. Thus the chief view from the house 
looks down the long path between flowers on 
each side to the big Spruce tree at one end. 
Here the path turns through the flowers by in- 
formal stepping stones to the grass panel. On 
this side the garden is bounded by the Forsythia 
bank, graded and planted to look parallel to 
the stone wall opposite. A similar path goes 
down the opposite side of the garden, from the 
street entrance through old Lilacs between a 
row of Spruce and Pine, against the pasture wall 
on one side and a flower border on the other. 
I his path also passes through the flowers by 
stepping stones and enters the grass panel. 
THE GATE WITH ITS RUSTIC SETTINGS 
The path by the wall leads to this shady little nook and thence out through 
the little gate to the old "Green” beyond. (Point B on the general plan) 
