PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



lished here nearly two centuries ago, are carefully 

 treasured by the present owners of the Haddon 

 estate, but no other object is so tenderly cared for 

 and preserved as the famous wall. It was in this 

 typical English garden that much of the romance of 

 Elizabeth Haddon 's courtship occurred. The story 

 is well known of how the demure little Quakeress gave 

 very decided assistance to her bashful lover, the 

 Quaker boy preacher, John Estaugh, during his love- 

 making. When she finally encouraged him to end his 

 uncertainty, and they were married, John Estaugh 

 became the attorney of John Haddon, and took 

 charge of his large landed interests in New Jersey. 

 When many homes and gardens were afterwards 

 established on the Haddon holdings, the numerous 

 walls dividing and enclosing the garden spaces were 

 strictly English in character. For this reason there 

 are many inspirations for wall building in Haddon- 

 field to-day, examples of quaint mortar- joining, 

 moss-covered interstices, shingle roofing, and plaster 

 coping. 



There seems to be a very general impression that 

 only walls built against terraces (retaining walls 

 with banks of earth on one side) can be made really 

 beautiful. A study of these ancient walls standing 

 straight and firm and high, with picturesque support- 

 ing buttresses and pilasters, will convince one who 



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