14 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
fore this audience ; and we plan all the settings 
around about to capture the admiration of the 
street. 
Consequently the suburbs of American cities 
are said to be the most beautiful in the world — 
to drive through. Could there be a more elo- 
quent qualification of praise than that final 
clause? I think not, when it is remembered 
that these are colonies of homes, not public 
parks. They are not for the man who “ drives 
thiough,” but they are for the man who stays 
there and for his wife and his sons and his 
daughters. Yet the streets are the most at- 
tractive part of them. 
There are few at the present time, however, 
who would have the courage to break away 
from what has come to be a traditional style or 
plan here, even if convinced of its advantages, 
both ethical and material; yet I am going to 
suggest what a colony which adopted the other 
older and better ways might gain, and the very 
real beauties which would remain in its streets 
even though they were deprived of their 
domestic panoramas. 
In the first place, every foot of his ground 
is available to the man whose house forms a 
part of his boundary walls and whose boundary 
is walled. If he buys forty by one hundred 
