© Edna Walling Collection, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria

Source: MS13048 box 3726

...Surely when an architect has designed a house of which he is proud he would not allow a mediocre garden to be wrapped around its foundations, but rather sketch out environs of the house so that it connects with the land comfortably, as if he really loved the land and the house he has created sufficiently to care that his little garden scheme butts up to it without any interruption in the way of architectural construction, such as a paved terrace or paved path, fitting to the house.

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