PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



sirable than the costly structure built for show by 

 an expert. The important thing is to have the 

 foundations staunch and dependable, and the wall 

 so intelligently laid that it can be depended upon to 

 last for years. Let the painstaking care lie in these 

 directions rather than in smooth, precise surface 

 finish. 



There is a famous old garden wall in Haddon- 

 field, New Jersey, enclosing a great space of bloom 

 and beauty and romance. The whole composition 

 closely resembles some wonderful castle garden. 

 There are rare old yew trees, and tall box bushes and 

 fine old specimens of other trees and shrubbery 

 brought over from England in the long ago. Hun- 

 dreds of yards of time- softened, picturesque brick 

 wall enclose this garden of the historic Haddon 

 estate, the place that gave the town its name, and por- 

 tions of it have stood for nearly two hundred years. 

 It was about the year 1719 that the English gentle- 

 man, John Haddon, purchased four hundred acres 

 of land in this section of New Jersey, where many 

 English Quakers were making investment. "When 

 it became important to look after his posses- 

 sions in the new world, John Haddon was finally per- 

 suaded by his ambitious little daughter Elizabeth 

 to allow her to take the perilous journey across the 

 ocean. As he had no sons able to make the voyage 



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