Come into the garden Author:Grace Tabor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "A garden ought to He to the best parts of the house, or to those of the master's commonest use, so as to be but like one of the rooms out of which you step into... more » another." Of Gardening.—Sir Wm. Temple. CHAPTER H Position And Plan Op The House There are three points under which the location and the layout of a dwelling should be considered. These are its exposure for summer and winter comfort; its place on the ground with regard to the greatest economy and conservation of the same; and the distribution of the space thus saved and conserved for the greatest degree of efficiency and beauty. All these three are almost, if not quite, equally important. If there is any difference between them, it is indicated by the order in which they are named—but do not let this minimize the importance of the last nor magnify the importance of the first. To each should be given such a measure of consideration and careful thought that when a plan is finally adopted andthe work begun, it may be with the certainty that the very best is about to be accomplished under all three heads. Every plot of ground, however great or small it may be—excepting the city lot which, leaving no room whatsoever for choice, is of course not now under consideration—affords just one "best" place for the house which is to take shape upon it. And the location of this anywhere but in or upon this best place, is a misfortune which no amount of ingenuity can ever really overcome. But the owner of the average building plot never suspects it of possibilities of even the tamest sort; consequently such a plot is never treated expectantly, as it were. What it has been, it is—and apparently is to go on being, time without end. It faces north, south, east, or west according to the direction of the street whereon it fronts...« less