POSITION AND PLAN 15 
feet, he has forty by one hundred feet to use — 
not forty by one hundred less forty by twenty- 
five, or one quarter of the whole, which restric- 
tions bind him to turn over to the street, to put 
it as actual unvarnished truth. He has space 
for flowers, fruits, and vegetables to an unbe- 
lievable amount — unbelievable at least to those 
who have never thought about it or figured 
it out or tried it — and within his own garden 
beauty and interest and recreation and diver- 
sion, instead of in the street. 
It is a reversal that is very complete, for 
instead of a front porch overlooking the throng 
and the dust and invaded by both, figuratively 
in the first instance, actually in the second, this 
outdoor room opens at the rear — or side, de- 
pending upon the proper weather exposure, 
which must always be the determining factor — 
and looks over the fruits growing upon the 
wall, the green things everywhere, flowers in 
their trim borders, a tennis court perhaps or a 
bowling green, a pool in the sunlight where 
water lilies bloom and gold fish rest in the 
shadows, a hammock in the distance under the 
trees with table and chairs, and al fresco break- 
fasts on fine mornings, where grocers’ carts and 
delivery wagons cannot adventure, where all 
the privacy and lounging indolence of indoors 
