32 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
other, a definite and defensive barrier between 
the garden and the rest of the world, is enough 
for a beginning. 
Right here let me say that I cannot express 
too earnestly the belief that nothing worth 
while will ever be done with suburban or any 
other gardens until we restore the fences and 
walls so ruthlessly torn down and abandoned 
around the latter quarter of the last century. 
Neither will it be possible to accomplish much 
while our highest inspiration is the work un- 
dertaken by real estate development com- 
panies. They were responsible for this 
destruction of boundary markings in the first 
place, in their endeavors to make streets 
“ catchy ” by reason of their novelty to per- 
sons passing through them, every such person 
being of course a potential sale. And because 
it is still the streets that the commercial de- 
signer wishes to dangle as bait before the un- 
discriminating, he will fight every effort to 
restore privacy to private grounds and the 
thrusting out from them of the public high- 
way. 
There is absolutely no incentive to really 
fine garden work under the conditions which 
are to him ideal, however, and as long as these 
are tolerated, the art will languish. Be sure of 
