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wide, welcoming one, beckoning, as it were, for us 

 to pass through the portals and gaze with delight 

 on the beauties hinted at beforehand and now dis- 

 closed to the eye. 



For Colonial treatment there is nothing more 

 dignified or stately than the square wooden posts, 

 inclosing a locust inner one. They are built of 

 white pine, one of the most lasting woods to be 

 found in our country, and are Colonial or Geor- 

 gian in design. Many of them are ornamental, 

 topped with balls, urns, or torch devices and with 

 elaborate hand-carving, so wonderful in its de- 

 sign that architects copy them in their modified 

 Colonial houses of to-day. This was the work of 

 one of the most noted wood-carvers in our coun- 

 try, Samuel Mclntyre, whose name is a household 

 word to architects and landscape designers all over 

 the country. 



There are two ways of treating the entrance. 

 One of them is by adding an ornamental gate, cor- 

 responding in type with that of the posts. The 

 other is to leave the posts gateless ; while both are 

 correct, yet the former way is more often used as it 

 lends an air of privacy to the ground. It also helps 

 out the effect planned by giving a touch of pictur- 



