BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



tions of this chapter portray the "lovesome spot," where 

 flowers predominate, with nothing to recall the splendor 

 of other lands. A place for the harboring of flowers for 

 the sake of the flowers, and this was surely the thought 

 that brooded over the first New England gardens planted 

 in the early half of the seventeenth century, when Amer- 

 ican gardens had their beginning. 



The glimpse through the arched gateway of the garden 

 at Knock-Mae-Cree in old Irish, Hill of My Heart 

 (Plate 168), and the curtailed view of the flowery planting 

 in . the Woodside garden stimulate a longing further to 

 penetrate into these lovely sanctums. 



The garden at Elmwood is partly illustrated in the 

 accompanying picture it is further gracefully adorned 

 with pergola and pool. Liberally designed without being 

 elaborate, it has a charm that is all its own. 



Of quite another character is the perfect formal 

 garden at Pomfret Center, appealing to the garden lover 

 for its surpassing beauty in flower bloom, enhanced by the 

 graceful architectural lines of the buildings surrounding 

 the enclosure, and giving it the sense of complete privacy. 



Still another type of garden seen occasionally in Amer- 

 ica is that at Branford House, a magnificent estate at 

 Groton near New London, and one of the famous places of 

 that popular summer resort. This stately garden suggests 

 some of the foreign gardens familiar to us through travel 

 and books. 



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