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beneath it. But for the place that is in no 
sense “ quaint ” there is probably greater dig- 
nity and appropriateness in the uncovered gate- 
way than in any sort of arched opening. It is 
the small and intimate garden that needs this 
more distinctive setting apart, especially. 
It is with walks and gateways as with so 
many other phases of constructive garden 
work, of making and adorning; the one great 
obstacle to our accomplishing the best results 
always is the tendency to minimize the value 
of each seemingly small feature. Once rid of 
the idea that anything at all “ does not mat- 
ter,” the road to progress becomes an open 
highway along which we are bound to move, 
if we resolutely refuse to be beguiled from it 
this way or that by the trifling, the unreason- 
able, and the bizarre. These are the pitfalls of 
the unwary and undiscerning; let us guard 
carefully against falling into them. 
