The livable house, its garden . Plan of the Garden of Mr. Aymar Embury II,Architect, Englewood, New Jersey and makes for repose and spaciousness; an all-over pattern, on theother hand, is apt to be less pleasing for reasons which are hard toanalyze. Perhaps because it tends to be complicated and rest-less, perhaps because it easily becomes cramped in feeling—in anycase it is well to make paths wide and beds spacious at the ex-pense of numbers in such a garden, for nothing so reduces theapparent size of a garden as paths that are too narrow. Three examples of the central stretch of turf type of
The livable house, its garden . Plan of the Garden of Mr. Aymar Embury II,Architect, Englewood, New Jersey and makes for repose and spaciousness; an all-over pattern, on theother hand, is apt to be less pleasing for reasons which are hard toanalyze. Perhaps because it tends to be complicated and rest-less, perhaps because it easily becomes cramped in feeling—in anycase it is well to make paths wide and beds spacious at the ex-pense of numbers in such a garden, for nothing so reduces theapparent size of a garden as paths that are too narrow. Three examples of the central stretch of turf type of garden,each one differently handled, are Mr. Marshall Frys, Jenkins, and Mr. Jonathan Godfreys gardens. Eachone of these, I venture to say, would seem smaller and less repose-ful if the same spaces were covered all over with flower beds and [90] a n. Q OS W >. Q ^ D H^ O _ ^ ^ ?O ^ ^ - ^ *. 5U f-—~ O ?*«. ^ O^ C/J «o hJ 2^ dgeficape ^ 5-^s s^ <:S ^ ^^ W OJ Q O *-) P^ CO < :l^ O <^, <1 V ^ ^ [91] The Livable House paths. At the same time the very crowdedness of things in thepicture of Mr. Aymar Emburys garden is not without its charm. The paths of either type of garden, however, must have a pur-pose, must lead somew^here—around the garden and in and out—for a path with a blind end, a path along which one walks onlyto turn about and retrace ones steps, always contains disappoint-ment. Next in importance, after the location and design of the garden,comes the arrangement of flowers. I am sorry to say that al-most every one is prone to look upon the flowers as of paramountimportance. It is true that sheets of bloom will conceal a greatmany defects in design; but the flowers are passing, and may bechanged at any time, whereas a garden once laid out is often im-possible to alter. Color and season are the two fa
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