IV 
ARMONY between the home- 
grounds and the outer land- 
scape will not alone suffice to 
I 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 perfect the union. --Sometimes he must 
prepare for terraces or other semi-architec- 
tural accompaniments ; and always he must 
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