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House & Garden 
More Fresh Water 
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The small intimate garden should have something of the quality of the out¬ 
door room; somewhat architecturally enclosed, well paved, and, most of all, 
very accessible to the house 
When You Plan Your Garden 
(Continued from page 79) 
be a pleasure. So steps were done 
away with in part and a grass path, 
or ramp, on a slight slope was sub¬ 
stituted. In this way the trip to and 
from the garden is made comparatively 
easy and certainly more interesting 
than it would have been otherwise. 
That part of the hillside slope which 
was left undisturbed was planted with 
low-growing shrubs and creeping vines 
which keep the earth from washing 
away and create an easily maintained 
attractiveness. 
In making your own hillside garden 
you are apt to find in this example all 
the actual suggestions you will need to 
solve your particular problem. It is 
so simple architecturally that it should 
fit any kind of a house. In this con¬ 
nection it might be well also to say 
that a detailed discussion of retaining 
walls and steps will form a part of the 
present series of articles in the near 
future. 
On many small places a garden that 
is consciously a garden is the last thing 
for which the owner cares to assume 
responsibility. His is an attitude that 
is rapidly disappearing, and it is one 
that usually vanishes altogether very 
soon after the disapprover weakens 
ever so slightly. But even at first he 
will not object to a path bordered on 
each side by flower beds. And here 
enters as a wedge the long narrow 
garden—one of the most useful garden 
types. A path that leads from the 
house to any part of the grounds may 
serve as the basis for such a garden. 
It makes only two requests, but these 
should be granted: it should have a 
beginning and an end. 
The beds of the long narrow garden 
should be at least 5' wide, and the path 
should never be less than 3L>'. A good 
rule to follow is to make the width of 
the path one third the total width of 
the two side beds. Thus, where the 
side beds are each 6' wide, the width 
of the path would be 4'. Such a gar¬ 
den as this depends a great deal for its 
effectiveness upon its length, and it 
cannot be very effective unless it is at 
least three times as long as it is wide. 
The longer it is the larger should be 
the object upon which it ends, for noth¬ 
ing can seem more absurd than a tiny 
sun dial, for instance, at the end of a 
long walk. It should have a background 
of some kind behind each border—a 
hedge, lattice, wall, or a post and chain 
device as shown in the sketch. 
The broad open garden is the type 
best suited to the level or nearly level 
site on which there is a fairly moderate 
expanse of unshaded area. It is one 
of the most satisfying kinds of gardens 
because it combines the openness of the 
lawn with the seclusion and decorative 
qualities of the small garden. It may 
be enclosed by a hedge, fence, lattice, 
or wall—but it must be enclosed. 
At the end opposite the house there 
should be an arbor, as shown in the 
sketch, or a shelter of some sort, from 
which you may get a view of the house, 
and from where you may sit and enjoy 
the garden from a different angle. 
There should be water in some form. 
If it can be managed in the shape of 
a broad flat pool, carrying out the spirit 
of the garden’s design, and located in 
front of the garden house so as to 
catch its reflection, it will be found to 
be especially delightful. It must be kept 
in mind, above almost any other thing 
in connection with the garden, that at 
some spot, preferably at the pool and 
the arbor, there should be shade, so 
that hot weather will not lessen the 
pleasure of garden idleness. 
The small intimate garden is less 
particular about its site than any other 
for the simple reason that it covers very 
little area, and smuggles against the 
house or into an angle made by a 
projecting wing. It should be treated 
as a very close adjunct to the house, 
and its manners should respect those 
of the house. That is, any woodwork 
in fence, lattice, or post enclosures, or 
in arbors, gateways and furniture, 
should be finished in the same color and 
spirit of design as the trim on the 
house. Its paving and its planting 
should be neat without being meticulous. 
These points are illustrated in the 
garden shown above, which is a verit¬ 
able outdoor room. It occupies a space 
30' by 40'; less than half the area 
covered by an average sized house. 
The simply constructed but graceful 
lattice enclosure corresponds in color 
and design to the wood trim of the 
house. The brick-on-edge paving re¬ 
peats the material and color of the 
porch floor but asserts a pleasant inde¬ 
pendence by striking a different pattern. 
