THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



farthest from the entrance is a circular pavilion, 

 an informal gazeebo, its roof a light framework 

 of rods or canes. Along these run bold vines full 

 of blue-black clusters, this fruit of the vine hung 

 against a distance of valley and mountain rich 

 in every autumn color and bound together by 

 that heavenly October haze of blue. 



It was in October, too, that I saw another 

 garden, Fancy Field, at Chestnut Hill, near Phil- 

 adelphia. In the soft autumnal light the summer 

 freshness of all green was touched here almost 

 to the gray-greens of Italy. Would that my 

 memory of this garden equalled my delight in it ! 

 I might then hope to describe with some degree 

 of accuracy what I so enjoyed upon that day. 

 My recollection is of garden after garden, one 

 out-of-door apartment after another, perfectly 

 connected, with a most knowing use of structural 

 green in the way of hedges low and high; of the 

 quiet effect of broad spaces of hedge-enclosed turf; 

 of one garden modelled upon the Lemon Garden 

 of the Villa Colonna at Rome; of another, illus- 

 trated here, a reproduction of the Dutch Garden 

 at Hampton Court made in the time of William 

 and Mary; of a third, a knot or parterre fashioned 

 after an ancient pattern still existing somewhere 



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