House and Garden 
throughout, for the aim of a garden is to create 
abiding-places, like the rooms of a dwelling, 
and separate,distinct abodes of which each one 
serves a pronounced purpose and tor whose 
formation the builder uses, instead of dead 
material, living plants, which he brings into 
intended forms by means of stone-construc¬ 
tions, wood and lattice-work and afterward 
skillful cultivation. The plant itself may 
develop ever so freely • • • the great form, 
which the mass of the plants takes in the 
garden is one intended by man, even for the 
reason that one selects one plant-form in 
preference to another among many known 
ones, and therefore we mav call it an archi- 
tectural task.” It is in vain to give to the 
garden an artificially unforced appearance. 
Two illustrations or two groups of two 
illustrations each, may again show how gro¬ 
tesque and ugly the so-called artistic is 
compared with the plain and simple in the 
building of gardens as in the building of 
houses. In the one place we see an en¬ 
deavor to make a covered, shady nook in a 
garden and to get the best effect by means 
of a wall. The builder in a simple, tasteful 
way has created a wall-construction with the 
irregular stones that a near-by quarry furn¬ 
ished and which have been covered with 
wildly growing natural 
vegetation. And upon 
this has been erected a 
little garden house of 
scantlings. The road 
is edged bv a few trees, 
allowed to grow as they 
please. Side by side 
with this let us look 
at a so-called artistic 
attempt at devising a 
grotto. Without doubt 
there has been pro¬ 
vided a little water for 
it from somewhere, 
which can be made to 
run by artificial means. 
.1 he stones have been 
heaped up in such a 
way as to look roman¬ 
tic and the walk,— 
without the least bit of 
verdure and probably 
burning in a hot sun, 
WHERE THE GERMAN TAKES HIS COFFEE 
—is edged by rocks, so that each step is un¬ 
comfortable and the dust contaminates the 
air. The path is broad and bare and has 
been intercepted from time to time with rows 
A GRACEFUL GARDEN HOUSE 
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