Gardens and Their Accessories 



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While this suggestion as to the installa- 

 tion of the isolated garden of foreign char- 

 acter is the only way in which it can be 

 successfully treated, yet the usual and per- 

 haps the best method is to consider the 

 garden in composition with the house, and 

 as such in connection and in harmony 

 with it. This does not prevent, however, 

 the existence of the garden of foreign 

 character in another part of the estate, but 

 such a garden is usually a toy. 



This consideration of the garden and 

 house as one motive would seem to be the 

 correct one where only one garden is 

 contemplated. With intelligent treatment 

 the effect of the house from the garden, 

 and garden from the house, introduce so 

 many features in the way of accessory that 

 both are greatly enhanced by the associa- 

 tion. Naturally, the whole being con- 

 sidered as one composition, the archi- 

 tectural rules governing line, scale, balance, 

 proportions and colour apply to the garden 

 as well as to the house, and naturally, too, 

 these effects are gotten largely through 

 the medium of lesser architectural motives, 

 commonly called garden accessories. Not 

 only do these accessories serve the above 

 purpose, but also through their agency are 

 the garden masses tied together, as well 

 as to the house. 



We naturally first consider the garden 

 from the standpoint of the plan, and the 

 less complex this may be the better will be 

 the final result. It is important, too, that 

 it should always take advantage of and 

 mould itself upon the natural conditions 

 offered by the site and the visible sugges- 

 tions beyond its bounds. 



Perfect as the plan may be, it may 

 fall flat in the faulty disposition of ac- 

 cessories or through poor planting, or 

 through both. Accessories being a more 

 or less permanent feature, are more difficult 

 to rectify in case of failure than is the 

 planting. This last, considering the diffi- 



Garden wall at Greenwich, Conn. Estate of Mr. Frank 

 Squires. Wilson Eyre, architect 



Pergola and sun-dial on estate of Mr. Frank Squires, 

 Greenwich, Conn. Wilson Eyre, architect 



