64 



House & Garden's 



From the lily 

 pool one can look 

 up the grass 

 paths between 

 the orderly beds 

 to the house 



ONE should not 

 come upon a 

 formal garden too 

 suddenly. The way 

 to it should be a 

 gradual progress 

 from the house. This 

 axiom is beautifully 

 illustrated in the 

 garden at the home 

 of Dr. J. Henrj' 

 Lancashire at Man- 

 chester, Mass. 



From the grass 

 terrace before the 

 house — a terrace 

 worked out by a 

 stone wall and ac- 

 cented with potter)' 

 jars — one passes by 

 slow degrees along 

 grass walks down to 

 the lower level of the 

 garden. Here are 

 formal beds brilliant 

 ■with color the season 

 through. The main 



THE GARDEN of DR. J. HENRY LANCASH 



MANCHESTER. MASS. 



MRS. WM. A. HUTCHESON. Landscape .-lrchiu:t 



IRE 



Standing on the 

 terrace before the 

 house one catches 

 this glimpse of 

 the garden and 

 its setting 



axis terminates in a 

 semi - circular lily 

 pool held in a stone 

 curbing. 



At this point the 

 ways divide. On 

 each side stone steps 

 lead to a pergola so 

 heavily bowered in 

 vines that one does 

 not at first suspect it 

 of being a pergola. 

 This forms the ex- 

 edra or termination 

 of the garden. 



Behind rises a 

 rock-riblied hillside 

 heavily forested. The 

 garden, then, is like 

 a jewel of many col- 

 ors in a setting of 

 woods, its formal 

 lines and varied col- 

 ors contrasting with 

 the rugged character 

 of the imniediate 

 surroundings. 



