28 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
mg the Governor’s ground until a much later era, we 
may safely assume that this is because no one thought 
it necessary to mention what was as much a part of 
every man’s demesne as the roof of his house. The 
streets of St. Augustine were narrow, “for shade” they 
tell us; this shade came from the buildings and the 
walls, not from trees. And the walls were really ex¬ 
tensions of the house fronts, as the second plan will 
show. This gives the plot on the north side of the 
Parade, with two residences of evidently considerable 
importance on the inner or west side, nearest the Gov¬ 
ernor’s house, while the smaller divisions of the remain¬ 
ing portion are the homes of householders of less con¬ 
sequence, apparently. Yet each place shows the same 
taste for regularity, and for the privacy of the grounds. 
It is the same throughout the town. The houses 
stand with one wall on the street line, and the way to 
the garden invariably lies through the house, or through 
an arcade beneath the second story of the house, just 
as it does in the towns and cities of the old world. 
The streets were pleasant enough for their purpose, 
made so by glimpses here and there of a rose that 
climbed above the wall, or a tree whose branches 
reached across; but nowhere were they allowed to be¬ 
come a part of the household of any resident. The 
seclusion of the garden was always as complete as the 
seclusion of any room in the house itself, and it really 
