Gardens and Their Accessories 



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uuttresses. The 

 fact that the house 

 level is above that 

 of the garden lends 

 to the perspective of 

 the latter, inasmuch 

 as the design of 

 walks, planting, etc., 

 will count to better 

 advantage. This 

 effect, while ex- 

 cellent, should never 

 be gotten by evi- 

 dently artificial 

 means, although 

 much can be done 

 artificially that does 

 not count as such. 



The lines of the 

 house are best con- 

 tinued by the use of 

 walks or fences, the 

 use of hedges alone being hardly of 

 enough contrast to make an emphatic 

 line at all seasons of the year, while it 

 may answer for the brief period of its 

 bloom if it be a flowering hedge. There 

 is no objection, however, to reinforcing 

 the former with the latter if desirable. 



The pergola is of Italian parentage 

 and, like its numerous dissatisfied 

 brethren, has found its way to the land 

 of freedom. It consists of a flat lattice 

 roof supported by columns, and may 

 be a free and independent motive, be 

 used in connection with the house, or 

 perhaps be a composite of both. Varying 

 as it does from severe classic lines to 

 those of the most informal, it offers a 

 considerable range of treatment. The 

 supporting columns may be of stone, 

 brick, plaster or wood, while the lattice 

 work is of the latter material. Some of 

 the less formal Italian types, in which 

 the columns are made of rough plaster 

 of simple design, with a rough pole 



Wall of entrance court showing wall fountain, " Maxwell Court." The oak growth back of 

 the wall forms a most excellent screen to the estate 



" Maxwell Court." The garden gate 



