DESIGNING A GARDEN 45 
ground. It has, however, a very distinct ad- 
vantage artistically as well, for it banishes the 
little isolated building that is so hopeless an 
architectural problem when stood off in the 
corner to which custom has relegated it. In- 
corporated with the house, this becomes a real 
acquisition instead of an eyesore, increasing the 
dignity and importance of the place instead of 
detracting from it. Gasoline is of course 
tanked outside and underground as usual. 
The design for the irregularly shaped corner 
plot starts on the vertical axis of the main part 
of the house — Ai — although nothing but the 
simplest layout of walk fills the ground space 
at this side. It is in the connection of this 
space with the rest of the ground by means of 
the continuation of this walk that the succes- 
sive steps from Ai begin to show. The Herm 
or statue — Bi — placed at the walk’s turn, is 
purely fancy, introduced to give interest where 
little of interest has so far developed. A long 
vista opens as soon as the turn is made, how- 
ever, the axis of which, A2 — determined as to 
direction by being made parallel with the 
boundary at that place — intersects the axis of 
the entrance A3 at x, thus fixing the point 
from which A4 shall rise. This in turn 
furnishes the location of the dial C4, the dif- 
