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HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE 



with plants its entire length, edges the water with a green wall of 

 salt-defying cedars. Under the gazebo, which is built on heavy stone 

 arches, is a grotto. Sea grasses grow in stone crevices near the 

 splashing waves, and hammocks swung in the shadow of post and 

 arch mean luxurious comfort even on the warmest day. 



THE MOTOR BOAT CAVE. 

 CHILDREN'S SWIMMING POOL. 



Peering from a cave-like fissure in the rock of the grotto is a metal 

 dragon that in a storm spouts white flecked foam with a roar above 

 that of the pounding waves a bit of realism that often pleases 

 grown-ups as well as children. 



Salt air and occasional salt mist spitefully but fruitlessly assail 

 the poplars, Japanese privets, beach plums, the Euonymous, sea buck- 

 thorns, tamarisks and Rosa rugosas that among other plants adapted 

 for use at the seashore fringe the rocky water front. 



