An Architect's Garden 
THE EXEDRA 
A COLUMN AND CLEMATIS 
in the placing; for if put far to the west¬ 
ward, the house would cast a shadow on it 
in the afternoon, and if tothe eastward, the 
cedars would shade it in the morning. The 
central line of the flower garden evidently 
had to run up the hill at a right angle with 
the long path, and its exact place was deter¬ 
mined by two gum trees that stood apart 
from the rest and offered a pleasant ending 
to the vista on 
looking down. 
It was to be 
a formal 
garden, 
— that 
went 
without 
saying. 
Training 
, incli- 
nation, 
senti- 
meat, reason, all 
dictated it. And 
s5 our 
straight 
path was to be 
bordered 
by a 
well cl 
i p p e d 
hedge. 
The 
flower 
garden, 
for w h 
i c h a 
space was to be 
THE PATIENT FISHERMAN 
levelled just above the path, took the form 
of a square, which we hoped some dav to see 
enclosed with a wall of green. The ground 
rose above it to a spot from which everything 
looked its best; and if there w'ere to be a 
shady nook from which to look out over the 
whole, that was evidently the place for it. 
Since it was also the end of the cross axis, 
there, if anywhere, should be some modest 
bit of architec¬ 
ture suited to an 
unpreten ding 
formal garden. 
’ So it came about 
that a curved 
seat, with simple 
columns bearing 
a trellis was 
designed for it. 
When March 
came our ideas 
had crystallized 
and our plans 
■were ready. 
Then we set to 
work. T h e 
curved seat and 
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