LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



ment of this place because anything of the garden- 

 esque, picturesque, or other typical landscape 

 method would certainly mar its spirit. It was 

 felt necessary to sacrifice nearly all ambitious 

 attempts of this kind. Straight walks bordering 

 the house and extending back to the stable and 

 vegetable garden were made; not because they 

 were, in the ordinary sense, beautiful, but because 

 they were fitting. 



The grounds in front of the house were developed 

 in conventional landscape style by means of a 

 curving road coming in at one gate and passing 

 the house-front to the other gate, following more 

 or less the arc of a circle. The same landscape 

 treatment for the front was completed by arrang- 

 ing, in irregular beds along the borders of the 

 fence and curving in and out, great masses of 

 hybrid rhododendrons of the richest and most 

 hardy kinds — crimson, purple, pink, and white. 

 The plants on the remainder of the place con- 

 sisted almost entirely of roses and old-fashioned 

 flowers like larkspur; while shrubs and trees com- 

 pleted what was not accomplished by the rhodo- 

 dendrons, various kinds of dogwoods, snowballs, 

 bush honeysuckles, and some silver maples and 

 ash trees. The old-fashioned flowers were planted 

 on the borders along the edges of the paths. 



The principal landscape effect of this place, 

 after all, is the lawn. Here it was possible to 

 secure a long sweep of turf extending from the 

 front to the rear of the grounds with bordering 

 plantations on each side. It should be said that 



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