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GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN. 



The repose, the dignity, the quaint simplicity, and uncon- 

 scious self-restraint of Sunnyside is my ideal of what a 

 small place should be with a grandmother's garden 



behind it. 



But the reader will say, 

 perhaps, I have my acres of 

 land with drives, rhododen- 

 d ron groups, shrubberies, green 

 houses, beds of cannas and co- 

 leuses, and yet why cannot I 

 too have my grandmother's 

 garden ? You can have it, 

 without doubt, but since it 

 will be necessarily out of keep- 

 ing with the general scope of 

 your place, you will have to 

 isolate it and shut it from view 

 with large trees and shrubs, 

 so that it will be a surprise 

 when discovered, and not 

 count in the general effect of 

 the lawn. 



In order to explain what I mean, I have introduced a 

 plan of a place near Orange, N. J., where just this arrange- 

 ment for a grandmother's garden was undertaken. It is 

 not, of course, exactly what we remember our grandmoth- 

 er's garden to have been, oilier times, other manners, -but 

 it is built on the same plan, amplified and perfected in ac- 

 cordance with the richness of our modern list of peren- 

 nial garden plants. It is less quaint, I acknowledge, less 



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