THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



with special pleasure. This garden is the more 

 successful when one hears that its space is re- 

 stricted, that its proportions are perhaps one 

 hundred and fifty feet deep by fifty wide, and that 

 the ground was originally the site of an ancient 

 dwelling. The old levels of cellar and main floor 

 were scrupulously and closely retained giving the 

 necessary drop for two short flights of low steps. 

 Along the street line there is a fence. Stepping- 

 stones go through the entire garden, which over- 

 looks at the opposite end the harbor of Nantucket. 

 As foreground for this lovely picture of water, 

 tree and flower have been used with a most ex- 

 cellent eye for effect. The house is connected 

 with the garden by a terrace of brick and against 

 the wall of this terrace is a fine border of annual 

 flowers. The first or lower garden, next the 

 house, is oblong; the second square; the third 

 informal in treatment, with the sea-lavender lead- 

 ing up to a charming little pool with goldfish 

 papyrus growing there. 



In the cut, page 244, showing a part of the ter- 

 race wall, one notices the old-time, fan-shaped 

 supports for roses always a feature of the early 

 New England garden. Here are seen tall fox- 

 gloves rising from groups of the wonderful Iris 

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