Its Garden 



The photographs of two gates at Forest Hills illustrate how 

 pleasing an ordinary dooryard walk mav be made, by some form 

 of gateway to mark its departure from the road, and the gates 

 themselves are harmonious details in the general scheme of 

 English cottage architecture. 



The very original gateway to the Pomeroy place opens into a 

 lane of lilacs that has almost the effect of pleaching. With an 

 entrance made as attractive as this for introduction, the newcomer 

 is prepared to be pleased with the entire place. 



Both sides of Mrs. Hill's garden doorway at Easthampton are 

 equally charming.^ The whole wall, in fact, has a delightfully 

 spontaneous quality in its design — an unstudied simplicity which 

 professional work is apt to lose to technique. The use of rough 

 surfaced concrete for the wall is very good and surprisingly inter- 

 esting, for as a rule concrete without brick or tile or some other 

 contrasting material to relieve its deadness is very unattractive. 

 The breaks in line, together with the rough surface, the thatched 

 house and the pergola, combine to give the wall variety and inter- 

 est. Incidentally there is a kind of fundamental fitness about this 

 \\2l\\ — it is apparently, as well as actually, a part of the low sand 

 hills of the coast-land round about "the Hamptons." 



A happy combination of materials, as well as charm of design, 

 is illustrated in the wall and gateway of "Huntland," where brick 

 posts and a molded brick cap furnish a contrast to the stucco sur- 

 face. A similar office is performed bv the stone coigns and cap 

 of the gateway at the Winthrop place. 



^ See the group of illustrations at the end of this chapter. 



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