SIBLEY C. SMITH 



fountain. The fountain provides an architectural 

 feature which is pleasing in its placing opposite 

 the conservatory door and in its location near 

 the Pine which overshadows it. A wall fountain 

 is an economy of space and the smallest trickle of 

 water has an enlivening effect in a garden. The 

 three flat arch openings in the other wall allow the 

 green of the back shrubbery to enter into the com- 

 position. This wall is unusual, in giving both the 

 effect of seclusion and a suggestion of something 

 of interest beyond. Jasminum nudiflorum planted 

 under the conservatory windows has bright yellow 

 flowers very early in the spring. Snowdrops, Iris 

 reticulata, and English Primroses are planted in the 

 sunny nooks at the foot of the wall and a white 

 Chinese Wistaria climbs over it. The annual vine 

 Cobea scandens gives a delightful lavender bloom 

 in the fall and English Ivy planted on the shady 

 sides provides the winter interest. The terrace is 

 a pleasant out-of-door room. It is comparatively 

 small but the wide-open view of the flower garden 

 and the broken glimpses of the back lawn makes it 

 quite big in feeling if not in actual extent. 



The central arch of the wall is a door to the 

 back lawn. On either side are informal shrubbery 



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