GARDENS OF WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE 



stately with pergolas and marble pools; but none among 

 them handed over to alien builders, any more than the 

 houses were furnished by an interior decorator. 



There is Maxfield Parrish's garden, partly inclosed 

 in white walls and dominated by splendid oaks, a gar- 

 den that is hardly more than a wide walk bordered by 

 snowy spiraea and leading to the loggia, with a few vivid 

 beds whose fragrance blows into the windows ; a place 

 more like a handful of exquisitely arranged flowers in 

 a stone vase, augmenting the home feeling and home 

 loveliness, than something apart and important in itself. 

 The house is admirably suited to its situation and the 

 placing of the trees and its hill view are true portions 

 of its garden. 



Rose Standish Nichols, on the other hand, has a 

 garden complete in itself, separated from the house by 

 a grass-grown terrace, and inclosed within a rough 

 stone wall, low and broad. The paths cross each other 

 symmetrically, meeting in the center at a clear circular 

 pool, over which an apple-tree spreads its twisted boughs, 

 an old tree dating before the "first resident" among 

 all the artist colony. The beds are long, bordered with 

 grass, and the color scheme is enchanting, changing 

 with the changing seasons, but harmonious always, 

 daring, too, as nature herself is daring. A certain care- 

 less, joyful effect in the planting, in the arrangement of 

 the shrubs, the use of fruit-trees, and the irregularity of 

 the gray old slabs that make the wall, mitigate what in 



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