Its Garden 



The use of a combination of materials, except in the case of 

 stone which very often contains enough variety in itself to give an 

 interesting surface, usually results in a better looking wall than 

 one built of a single material. Especially is this true of brick, 

 the use of which can easily be oyerdone. Too much brick gives 

 the garden a sombre and oppressive appearance which is simple 

 to enliven by a contrast in materials. Cement, slate, marble, flag- 

 stone — all these are valuable in this respect, and any one of them 

 used in conjunction with brick makes it twice as interesting. 



Sometimes a wood trellis applied to a wall is the means of in- 

 creasing its interest. This is the case with the high wall at Anda- 

 lusia, Pennsylvania, where the architects have devised a very 

 clever and delightful treatment of the garden side of a building 

 so high that it would have been painfully stupid without some 

 surface treatment. 



A quite different use of wood with masonry is that of the cedar 

 poles and stone piers on the Edgar place at Greenwich; and still 

 a third sort, a cross between wall and fence, is that in Mrs. Harry 

 Payne Whitney's garden, where chestnut pailings between brick 

 piers mark the boundary. 



Some such compromise between wall and fence is almost the 

 only way in which a wood fence can be made to perform the 

 offices of a high wall, because for structural reasons as well as for 

 those of good appearance fences do not lend themselves well to 

 high treatment. 



For lower boundaries wood fences are both useful and attrac- 

 tive, and the two sorts in common use in this country may almost 



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