180 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
in a clipped arch, and to extend in from this 
to form a border along the walk to the foot of 
the steps. Quite definitely the service yard is 
to be set apart and screened with arbor vitae, 
faced with a winter shrubbery border; and a 
gleaming faun may possibly be installed at the 
rear on the axis of the living room, Dutch gar- 
den and lawn. 
Between these two places, chosen as illustra- 
tions, there are of course all manner of things 
possible, even when a place has been started — 
providing the conventional lack of garden is 
absolutely ignored and all remembrance of it 
wiped off the slate. It is this which most seri- 
ously hampers the development of suburban 
gardens. Until we rid ourselves of it, there- 
fore, we need not expect to do more than has 
been done — we need not indeed expect to have 
gardens at all, but only grounds, such as are 
everywhere to-day. 
