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mesticity, its homeliness, its simplicity. We have 

 gained infinitely in comfort in our perfect water 

 systems and lavish water of to-day, but we have 

 lost the gratification of the senses which came from 

 the sight and sound of freshly drawn or running 

 water. Much of the delight in a fountain comes, 

 not only from the beauty of its setting and the 

 graceful shape of its jets, but simply from the sight 

 of the water. 



Sometimes a graceful and picturesque growth of 

 vines will beautify gate posts, a fence, or a kitchen 

 doorway in a wonderfully artistic and pleasing fash- 

 ion. On page 70 is shown the sheltered doorway 

 of the kitchen of a fine old stone farm-house called, 

 from its hedges of Osage Orange, " The Hedges." It 

 stands in the village of New Hope, County Bucks, 

 Pennsylvania. In 1718 the tract of which this farm 

 of over two hundred acres is but a portion was 

 deeded by the Penns to their kinsman, the direct 

 ancestor of the present owner, John Schofield Wil- 

 liams, Esq. This is but one of the scores of exam- 

 ples I know where the same estate has been owned 

 in one family for nearly two centuries, sometimes 

 even for two hundred and fifty years ; and in sev- 

 eral cases where the deed from the Indian sachem 

 to the first colonist is the only deed there has ever 

 been, the estate having never changed ownership 

 save by direct bequest. I have three such cases 

 among my own kinsfolk. 



Another form of garden and mode of planting 

 which was in vogue in the " early thirties " is shown 

 facing page 92. This pillared house and the stiff 



