CHICAGO, FEBRUARY i, 1895. 



No. 58 



COVE OHUROH. 



Landscape Gardening. 



T«B EFlSCOFflL CflURC«, GLEN COVE. N. 1, 



The neighborhood of Glen Cove is a 

 broken, hilh-, well-wooded, and beautiful 

 country. The village proper runs through 

 a glen between somewhat steep hills, bor- 

 dering a creek which has been dammed 

 back for mill power purposes till it looks 

 like a small lake. There are several 

 churches in the village and all except the 

 M. E.oneare situated on hill tops orquite 

 high groimd. Two in particular, the 

 Presbyterian and Episcopal, arc very 

 beautiful churches, the latter especially 

 so. Indeed the Episcopal church as it 

 appears from the street is the prettiest 



little church building we know of. The 

 wealth of vines about the front is particu- 

 larly attractive, and are noticed and ad- 

 mired by everybody. Even the risers of 

 the front steps are covered with the vines, 

 the steps being bare. Although the 

 church is on high ground the road in gen- 

 tle winding grades supported by well 

 sodded terraces is easily travelled, and the 

 grass being kept mown in .summer and 

 the roads clean and in good repair, the 

 church and its grounds are the pride of 

 the village, and their refining influence is 

 felt throughout the whole community. 

 The vines used are mostly Veitchi'sampe- 

 lopsis, one of the cleanest, easiest to grow 

 and most manageable of all vines. Our 

 illustration is engraved from a photo- 

 graph taken last fall. 

 Compare this beautiful little country 



church with many of the bleak, naked, 

 shiver-inspiring church buildings we find 

 throughout the country. Here you see 

 the effect of a few vines appropriately 

 used and taste in laj-ing out and keeping 

 the grounds. There is religion in this. 

 The poorest church in the country can go 

 and do likewise. If the outside of the 

 church is ugly, ill-kempt, dishevelled, and 

 repugnant, what can we expect within? 

 We must be consistent. The vines ar.d 

 trees and beautiful grounds about the 

 church are a living sermon to everyone 

 who passcth by, even in the heart of the 

 atheist who cannot be coaxed to come 

 inside of a church the good seed is sown 

 and will germinate and grow about his 

 own home. 



Our highly respected townsman General 

 James B. Pearsall, a pillar of the church 



