I HOUSE AND GARDEN 
J 
UNE, 1912 
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tivate simplicity and keep to a general 
style conforming to the style of the dwell¬ 
ing, making quite sure that the latter is 
a little more splendid than the garden, 
rather than a little less so. Proportion the 
garden to the house, and locate it accord¬ 
ing to the house plan, and to the require¬ 
ments of the situation generally. Grounds 
should always be closed in from the high¬ 
way, whatever their size, and a formal 
garden similar to any of those illustrated 
should never be exposed on the public side 
of the house. Small dooryards are of 
necessity thus exposed, but the limitation 
of their area does away with the sense 
which always lurks around a great garden, 
ostentatiously placed, of a public place or 
hotel approach. 
The cost may be little or limitless, de¬ 
pending, of course, upon the amount of 
constructive work required. The garden 
boasting fountains, basins and other archi¬ 
tectural features obviously is not the poor 
man’s garden, but such a scheme as the 
picture at the top of page 20 shows, may 
be carried out very inexpensively. The 
round basin at the center, with the urn, 
furnishes the one item of considerable 
cost, which might be reduced 75 per cent, 
by the substitution of a sun-dial. The ar- 
bored seat at the end. delightful in form 
and in the contrast of white against green 
which it presents — a clear, high, vivid 
note in the composition — represents only 
a small outlay for lumber and perhaps 
two or three days’ labor. And the flow¬ 
ers cost no more than the same number, 
employed in any other fashion, of course. 
Where perennials are to be used, such 
a design is better than a more elaborate 
one. Annuals suit better the smaller beds 
in the third picture on the same page, and 
the carrying out in such a design of a one- 
color scheme in each bed, brings a result 
beautifully suggestive of mosaic or enamel. 
Deflnite lines should always surround a 
formal garden proper, and back of its ar¬ 
chitectural balustrades or its inclosing 
hedge the ideal demands shrubbery to ex¬ 
tend to a still higher growth of trees, un¬ 
less its location is down a hillside. The 
principle is to set it apart, to make it dis¬ 
tinctive, to show a sharp contrast between 
it and its surroundings; hence a broad ex¬ 
panse of lawn, sweeping away on every 
side, is not as pleasing — unless it falls off 
abruptly at the garden’s very boundaries, 
and shows no trees nor shrubs until re¬ 
mote distance is reached — as a forest 
planting into which the gem represented 
by the garden seems to have been pressed 
much as a seal is pressed into wax. 
I have said elsewhere something about 
the need for carrying out into the garden 
the lines of the house, or certain sugges¬ 
tions of these lines. The two must hold 
together; moreover, the garden must, in a 
sense, be a continuation of the house, 
therefore it must center on the house, or 
on some architectural feature of the house, 
and never should be set down here, there 
or anywhere simply because here, there or 
anywhere affords space for it. In both the 
garden plans shown the axis of Ihe dwell- 
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