THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



There is at Lenox, in the Berkshire Hills, a place 

 with the musical name of Fernbrook Farm. It 

 is high on one of the glorious hillsides between 

 Pittsfield and Lenox and reached by a romantic 

 drive through pretty by-roads. The house itself 

 is of white stucco and dark wood and here the 

 eye catches first of all, perhaps, the decorative use 

 of fruit, especially of rich black grapes, as the 

 vines are caught upward above windows of the sec- 

 ond story. The clusters hang clear and beauti- 

 ful from the stem all the way up; few leaves are 

 allowed to remain. Japanese plums and crab- 

 apples grow as espaliers, and the effect of this 

 bold decoration of fruit and leaf against the white 

 stucco gives an Italian touch, a lovely reminis- 

 cence of that land of sun and shadow. 



At the back of this house, looking into the 

 mountainside, there is first a grass terrace in a 

 court made by the projection of two wings of the 

 house upon it; a few steps down a second and 

 much larger terrace. Here is a fine sun-dial, a 

 bronze cupid astride a globe "Love Ruling the 

 World," modelled by the artist-owner of Fern- 

 brook. Flowers are so disposed about the ped- 

 estal as to beautifully adorn it. At the farther 

 side of this main terrace, through a small per- 



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