XXIII 



GARDENS AND ARCHITECTURE 



THERE was a time in the history of 

 American gardens when even a sum- 

 mer-house was an exception, an ar- 

 bor the introduction of a dweller of foreign 

 birth. Now and then one would meet with a 

 garden structure somewhat resembling the 

 pilot-house of a Mississippi River steamboat 

 or would come across an unattractive cast-iron 

 Stork-and-Pond-Lily garden seat. Even the 

 arbors (for the most part lattice-work resem- 

 bling Winnebago wigwams) were unshaded 

 by the vines that should have adorned them. 



Architecture and gardens had, in that not 

 very remote dark age of our national art prog- 

 ress, about as much interest one in the other, 

 as had good taste, and the dwelling-houses that 

 emphasized the American art hiatus roughly 

 bounded by 1850-1890, with sins and virtues 



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