74 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
able material they certainly should be, though; 
and planted and ornamented they as certainly 
may be. But on all small grounds their direc- 
tion should never be interfered with, for such 
interference wastes precious space. 
Take for instance the service ways in each 
of the first four plans; they do not use up an 
inch unnecessarily, but go direct to the object 
aimed at. Moreover they do not give access 
to the grounds generally, any more than the 
street does; and their position makes them al- 
most unseen — certainly unrealized — from 
either the house or the garden. What little 
notice they might attract is obviated by the 
planting which shelters them. The doorway 
at the bottom of the steps leading into the 
cellar of the house is not the inconvenience to 
housemaid or housekeeper that it might at first 
seem, by the way, because of speaking tube and 
electric opener with which it is supplied. A 
ring at this service door does not mean there- 
fore a trip to it, but merely the admittance of 
the tradesman to the basement hall — which 
does not admit to the cellar proper in any of 
these plans— and to the lift where he sends his 
goods up. 
Where the space between the house and 
street is kept in lawn, it is an advantage usually 
