THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



ately after its erection (this is now wreathed in 

 rambler rose Dorothy Perkins); of the pergola 

 itself in its first summer, a tangle of scarlet dah- 

 lias; and in the following summer, when annuals 

 were the mainstay. During the third summer 

 these were the subjects here: decorative dahlia 

 Golden West, white dahlias, and a hundred feet 

 of Burpee's Superb Spencer sweet peas, some un- 

 usual Spencer seedlings among them, especially 

 the heliotrope Tennant Spencer. No reds, not a 

 red blossom in the pergola ! Outside of it are 

 white dahlias and white sweet peas. 



Turning again to the prairie for a mile or so 

 farther, our road leads again to the lake. Here 

 is a surprise of a totally different character. Ta- 

 coma's "year one," as some one has said, is the 

 year 1889, yet twenty years later, only twenty 

 years later, here stands, surrounded by giant firs, 

 between whose columns the blue reaches of the 

 lake and the greener blues of distant shores are 

 seen, an English house, a dignified and serene 

 country house of the earlier Tudor period, with 

 walled garden and lily-pool. The latter is set at 

 a suitable distance from the house for effect from 

 the second-floor windows; and a large cutting- 



