DESIGNING A GARDEN 39 
dining room and porch. This extended requires 
a motif at Bi, opposite the porch. Hence the 
arbor in that situation. To reach this a walk of 
some sort is necessary, yet the distance is too 
short to descend with any dignity; the paved 
terrace Ci is the solution, the ground sloping 
away back and front. A walk from the arbor 
to the rear is a natural impulse, and this carried 
out and across at the back of the place de- 
mands a return without retracing. So Az, the 
axis of the main entrance — the “ front ” door 
that is not in front — develops, furnishing the 
line of such a walk; and one section is com- 
plete. The simplest possible entrance from 
the street is the direct one, and this will open 
a vista of real distance along A-3 when the 
porch is reached. Something must close this 
at its far extremity, so into the garden wall at 
d 3 is set a basin of cement for a bird bath. 
Finally, the dial at E4 takes its place on the 
transverse axis — A4 — of the “ front yard ” 
and provides a center from which further de- 
velopment may follow or not, as one chooses, 
when it comes to the planting — as well as a re- 
minder of the flight of Time to the casual who 
come within the gate. 
The second and less formal design for this 
same house and plot shows at once the less 
