POSITION AND PLAN 17 
regarding the suburban home, its possibilities! 
and its proper ideals. We have not recognized 
that it is definitely a type, alone and by itself; 
as distinct as the city home; widely different 
from the country home. Right here indeed is 
just where the most serious error has slipped 
in, for all the effort has been to treat the subur- 
ban grounds along the same lines which the 
large estate admits, to build the suburban house 
according to the same plans that the house in 
the midst of acreage rises from. 
So a kind of “ landscape ” gardening has 
been attempted, in a loose fashion, to which 
boundary fences and walls and many other 
rational features have been sacrificed in the 
vain hope of creating an illusion of the 
spaciousness and splendor which the truly 
suburban place cannot, in the very nature of 
things, possibly enjoy. For it has its very de- 
finite limitations, fixed and unalterable, of which 
it cannot be rid. Not until these are rec- 
ognized and, being recognized, are turned to 
account in the distribution and ornamentation 
of its grounds, will its highest possibilities, 
both esthetic and practical, be realized. 
But in the colony established upon the pre- 
vailing system of the present, the builder must 
of course conform to colony restrictions and 
