DESIGNING A GARDEN 37 
of house suggested; also a design for a larger 
place, and a design for a corner plot having 
an irregular boundary. In none of these are 
more than the main features given, it being 
my wish only to suggest here principles for 
guidance which may be applied universally, 
rather than actually to give detailed designs. 
Starting with the house, in detailed plan, 
located' upon the ground, the successive steps 
in the working up of each design are indicated 
alphabetically. Ai is the major “ inceptive 
point” in each diagram from which B is 
developed and from this C and so on, A 2 
and A 3 , etc., being the lesser inceptive points, 
numbered in the order of their importance in 
the scheme. That this natural development of 
the design by logical steps requires the detailed 
house plan is obvious; let nothing induce you 
to omit the careful drawing of this plan there- 
fore, exact and to true scale, Before another 
line is drawn. It may seem an unnecessary task 
at first thought to take such pains, especially if 
the house is built and you are thoroughly 
familiar with its layout; but house and garden 
are to be a unit, each complementing the other. 
Remember this; and remember that the one 
preeminent means of unification is the axis. 
Without an exact plan on paper no axes are 
