VII 
REPRODUCING THE OLD-FASH¬ 
IONED GARDEN 
E ACH and every place offers its peculiar problems. 
Even each of the typical suburban units of to-day 
—the plot fifty by one hundred feet in size—has its 
individual requirements, limitations and possibilities. 
So it is quite impossible to give plans with any expec¬ 
tation of their being practically available, or even re¬ 
motely suggestive, in more than a single instance here 
and there, perhaps. For garden plans are much less 
isolated units than house plans. They depend of 
necessity upon the house plan in the first place; and 
next they depend upon surroundings, and restrictions, 
and all the innumerable things which do not come 
within the control even of the owner of any piece of 
property, large or small. 
Instead of offering plans, therefore, which might not 
prove of the slightest help to a single individual in 
developing his own problem, I feel that it may be more 
practicable to classify and bring out, in brief compara- 
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