THE USE OF TLANTS 
Plants—which accomplish this screening also provide our bold character-forms, our strong 
texture-forms, our enchanting skyline. Note how the eye is irresistibly drawn to them, 
and how, through continuity of line, supplied by the use of Minor Structural as Fillers, 
the eye is led, easily and smoothly, from one major feature to another, pausing a moment 
to feast on the spots and splashes of color supplied by the Decoratives. 
Returning to the nearer view we 
examine the small flower garden 
directly opposite. Note with what 
a feeling of charm the Fillers are 
flanked around it, to enclose it, and 
make it a cozy, intimate, personal 
garden. The relation of this gar¬ 
den to the house is particularly 
fortunate. 
Out from the sun-room onto the 
rear lawn the feeling prevails of 
being in a garden, rather than on it. 
Close view of Bower garden The various borders euclose, screen, 
and protect, as w^ell as beautify, 
and divide the lawn into usable areas of pleasing size and proportion, veritable “outdoor 
living-rooms” for quiet reading, for afternoon cards and tea, for the evening meal. Pro¬ 
tected play-areas for the children, with a miniature world of their owm for discovery 
and exploration. 
There is no hazy feeling of indeterminate dis¬ 
tance; the far boundaries are positively defined 
by the eye-filling beauty of bold trees. The 
vista through the opening in the nearer plantings 
is terminated by a mass of color. To the left a 
grassy secluded path extends an invitation to 
pleasurable surprises beyond. Over and through 
all this area is a pattern of contrasting light and 
shadow, a feeling of joyous warmth tempered 
with cooling shade for the hotter hours. All 
these effects are made by the simple use of the three principal types of plantings—Accent, 
Filler, and Decorative. 
Rear areas and plantings from sun-room steps 
Right side border planting 
mental. The treatment here permits their handy proximity to 
intrusion into our consciousness. 
To our right we find 
another planting with 
a twofold purpose— 
screening and beauti¬ 
fying. 
Garages and drying- 
yards are necessary, but 
not particularly orna- 
the house without their 
Through the opening into the farther lawn, w'e find to the right a space for growing 
cut-flowers for the house, and, possibly, some dew-crisp vegetables for local consumption, 
or an herb-garden for home-growm flavorings and perfumes. And this farther lawn Itself 
is an ideal spot for laying out lawn games—croquet, obstacle golf, or even a full-sized 
practice putting green. 
Here and there, in, among, and between the plantings, are opportunities for the inclusion 
and expression of individual hobbies in gardening. Rock-gardens for those who like them, 
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