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House & Garden 
Two sides of 
this garden are 
protected by the 
house; a lattice 
just beyond the 
bordering brick 
path completes 
the enclosure 
THE CHARM of the ENCLOSED GARDEN 
An Air of Pleasant Seclusion Can Do as Much Toward Making a Successful 
Scheme as a Good Design and Well Arranged Planting 
H owever splendid a thing the outside 
world, it has no place in gardens. 
It is something to be seen through a 
lattice, over a wall, or beyond a gap 
in a hedge. And by protecting your 
garden from the outside world you give 
it one of the finest qualities a garden can 
have, which is an air of pleasant seclusion. 
The enclosure which forms this protection 
need never suggest that it is put there sel¬ 
fishly to shut out the 
world—there being no 
reason why it should be 
stern or formidable, but 
merely to serve as a hint 
that what lies within has 
been gently but firmly set 
apart. That, after all, is 
the real spirit of gardens 
—the spirit of detached 
existence from all the af¬ 
fairs which lie beyond its 
boundary. 
How to achieve this se¬ 
clusion is a matter of taste 
and necessity. It can be 
done with walls, fences, 
lattice or hedges. The 
choice of the material is 
not nearly so important as 
the way the material is 
subsequently handled. A 
DOROTHEA DUNLEA 
hedge can be just as effective as a wall and 
in many cases almost as permanent. In 
the small circular garden at the bottom of 
the page, for example, the enclosure has 
been made entirely of tall-growing ever¬ 
greens, than which nothing could have been 
more suitable. Where a dense enclosure is 
neither necessary nor appropriate, a lattice, 
hung with clematis or climbing roses, can 
be used with telling effect. 
In a city garden walls are generally im¬ 
perative. And as there is rarely anything 
particularly beautiful to be gained by a 
glimpse beyond them, the higher they are 
made the better. Even on the edges of 
town and in the suburbs, in cases where 
the garden faces directly upon a much tra¬ 
veled highway, a wall is apt to be the wisest 
solution. Elsewhere a complete shutting off 
of the outside world is not always to be de¬ 
sired. The hedge, wall or 
lattice should be there but 
it should be designed so 
that a view can be had of 
interesting and attractive 
things and scenes on the 
outside. 
Where a garden lies 
within an angle of its 
house, as the one shown at 
the top of the page, the 
question of completing the 
enclosure should be care¬ 
fully considered. It is a 
happy situation for a 
(Continued on page 104) 
This circidar garden is 
given a fine feeling of 
snugness by a sur¬ 
rounding line of cedars 
and arborvitae 
