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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1914 
‘Well, Mac, I sold it. Quickest sale I ever made, 
too. And those very people couldn’t see it a year ago. 
I guess the paint made the sale today.” 
That paint was worth more than it cost for protec¬ 
tion— you can work that out in figures. 
But only in pride of home can you measure the 
value of paint in making your home a more lovely 
place in which to live. A more lovely place to live in 
—that sold the house. 
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Scheming the Year’s Gardening 
(Continued from page 113) 
dot indicating the first stake; indicate the 
second stake with a dot (do not number 
this, however), and so on until each one 
is given its location on the paper. Then 
connect these dots, and you have the first 
contour, labeled at its left end “5'’ to 
identify it as 5 feet above the low level. 
In other words, you have the plan view 
of the line which water would leave on 
your slopes if it rose to a depth of 5 feet 
over your lowest spot or area. 
Move up now with your T-square pole 
to the near stake directly in front of you, 
and remain here for station point 2. Do 
exactly what you did before, put it down 
on your map, connect the dots, label the 
line at the left end of it “10” to indicate 
that it is 10 feet above the lowest level; 
and then move up again to the near stake 
for station point 3 — and so on until the 
ground is all worked. 
The plane table method is, of course, 
exactly the same principle, the table it¬ 
self being used to sight over. It is more 
conveniently used for 3 or 4 foot contours 
than for 5, for the reason that it is the 
drawing board which carries your map— 
and a height of 5 feet is awkward for 
drawing upon it. A plane table requires 
a little more constructive work than the 
T-square outfit, but it is less likely to 
admit of small errors, through being more 
stable. Any draughting board will serve, 
mounted on an ordinary camera tripod, 
the board being of any size convenient to 
hold the drawing you are making of the 
land. Its surface must be brought to the 
determined height each time it is moved 
up by having this height indicated on a 
measuring pole and setting it by this; and 
its level is secured positively by means of 
a cheap small hand level laid on its sur¬ 
face. 
Whatever size and shape and conforma¬ 
tion your land may have, be sure that 
some one place on it is the best place for 
the house. This is true of even the ordi¬ 
nary rectangular suburban plot. Aim to 
find out this best place, therefore, and set 
the house upon it ;and then make the house 
plan and the exterior conform to the 
natural requirements of this situation as 
well as to your own needs and con¬ 
venience. This is the sort of planning that 
results in a home of individuality, interest 
and charm; and if it were more generally 
followed we should come sooner to the 
“national style” of architecture which it is 
our constant reproach that we lack. 
Consider the land in its relation to the 
house, and the house in its relation to the 
land; never divorce them for an instant, 
if you do not wish to lose that lovely har¬ 
mony which is chief among the attributes 
of all beautiful, and therefore successful, 
gardens. On the contrary, aim to bring 
the two into closer and ever closer rela¬ 
tion, to unite them more firmly, to bind 
them up together until they are one. How 
is this to be done? What shall be planted 
to accomplish it, do you ask ? 
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