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The Country House 



A modest gate 



arbour of wistaria 



monastic structures, this edifice was in plan a hollow square enclosed by the 

 church on one side and flanked by two wings. The side opposite the church was 

 evidently bounded, or so intended to be, by a wall which, with the buildings, en- 

 closed the garden. Along the three sides of the court adjacent to the buildings 

 extended a cloister. The Spanish house is similar in its arrangement. The 

 central motive of the garden is a very simple fountain with a raised curbing, 

 characteristic of most of the Spanish examples, and paths radiating from this 

 on the diameters and diagonals of the quadrangle. The planting, while some- 

 what irregular in its present state, is nevertheless interesting, and the whole thing 

 suggests the privacy that is intended. This plan is similar to most of the Spanish- 

 American work and, as already stated, follows the lines of the parent country. 

 The scheme is evidently borrowed from the Pompeian, and is in harmony with 

 their ways of living. 



In the average Spanish garden the central motive is either a well, basin or 

 fountain, and in each case the curbing is raised. Some examples show the use 

 of small clipped hedges and walks on lines which suggest the Colonial, but the 

 illusion is only momentary, owing to the presence of tropical foliage. Through 



