House Garden 
but the idiosyncrasy 
of an owner that the 
crude tablet was built 
in the wall, that the 
vine emerges from the 
middle of a roof, that a 
weather-vane is cut in¬ 
to curious shape, that 
an inscription, labor¬ 
ing across a wall, re¬ 
cords a minor incident 
in a narrow human life. 
To better under¬ 
stand the vagaries of 
the buildings the con¬ 
figuration of the land 
must again be taken 
into account. Hori¬ 
zontal planes are few, 
not only thosesuitable 
f o r actual building 
sites, but those which 
give a horizon by 
which the eye may 
AT WAIDBRUCK 
measure nearer ob¬ 
jects. The true vertical 
is also difficult to real¬ 
ize, so insistent are the 
oblique lines of the 
mountain sides. The 
upheavals of centuries 
ago are pausing still in 
the ranges they have 
made, and all land¬ 
scape backgrounds are 
irregular, all lines are 
tree. The effect of this 
upon man’s labor is a 
lack of symmetry, a 
want ot balance, an ir¬ 
regularity as wayward 
as the winds which 
course through the 
valleys. The classical 
plan of a main build¬ 
ing with equal and 
symmetrical outlying 
wings, the acme of 
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