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The Country House 



With the extent of latitude and longitude which this country embraces, it is 

 not likely that the American garden is destined to become as distinct a type as 

 those of other countries. Its varying conditions are such as make the adoption of 

 certain cut-and-dried principles impossible. It has demonstrated one thing, how- 

 ever that, whatever else may vary, the American garden is distinctly a flower 

 garden. This is well, as it gives us the variety attending various schemes of 

 planting without great expense; thus one season is not necessarily the duplicate 

 of its predecessor. 



It is well that we consider the foreign garden and its conditions, but let this 

 consideration be thorough, extending even to the reason of things. When we have 

 done this we may draw upon our knowledge and produce for ourselves something 

 that may suggest, but shall be for the time nameless; a creation of simple beauty 

 unfettered by excessive plunder of the Continent; a creation that will be the 

 natural outgrowth of existing conditions and will harmonise not only with the 

 architectural structure but the life and temperament of its owner. 









Rock garden, "Yaddo." The brook, bordered by Japanese iris, connects two fountains 



