AN UNUSUAL WOODS GARDEN 



ized and made to flourish as luxuriantly as when 

 grown in their native rocks. 



There is another famous woodland garden in 

 Massachusetts: that of Gen. S. M. Weld, at Ded- 

 ham, in the suburbs of Boston, where a woodland 

 lake and bubbling brooks are utilized to present 

 charming pictures of wild gardening ; and rocks also 

 contribute their share of rugged rustic ornamen- 

 tation. 



The unusual forms of woods gardens not only 

 make the most of the material at hand in the form 

 of rocks and pools and running streams making 

 garden pictures, but introduce another feature the 

 establishing of a series of surprises in garden group- 

 ing. At ' ' Thorn Hedge, ' ' the beautiful old estate of 

 Mr. H. H. Battles, on the historic West Chester Pike, 

 near Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, there is a pleas- 

 ing development of woodland adjoining the lawns 

 surrounding the house that may well be taken as a 

 distinctive type of developing a garden grove. 



Passing through a wide stretch of lawn and flower 

 garden, and past the stately old country mansion, the 

 garden driveway leads down into one of the most 

 alluring stretches of woodland in all Delaware 

 County a woodland that has for centuries been 

 taking on that perfect charm, serene and mature, 

 which only time and the deft touch of unhindered 



191 



