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a garden laid out in delightful 
patterns, filled with lovely flow- 
ers and yet unsatisfactory to 
the architect, because its door- 
ways are ill placed, or because 
there are not enough of them. 
There is in my home town one 
of the prettiest little formal 
gardens I have ever seen; 
agreeable placing of seats and 
benches; delightful little arch- 
ways and Rose arbors, which 
exist in several places. It is not 
a very big garden, not more 
than 100x200 ft. I should 
think; one end of it is terraced 
up several steps above the other, 
and when one is in the garden 
one can hardly imagine a pleas- 
anter place to be. But the house 
must be five or six hundred feet 
distant from the nearest part 
of the garden, and the garden 
itself is set in the middle of a 
hay field with no very large 
trees near it, and is bounded 
simply by a hedge. The situa- 
tion of the garden is such that 
from the streets around it can 
be looked into from above, and 
the whole pretty scheme is com- 
pletely exposed. You see it in 
its entirety, a lovely little gar- 
den wasted, for it has no proper 
doorways at all. You leave it 
by passing under a bowered 
arbor, and find yourself nowhere; it has 
exits but no doorways. 
The most important of all the garden 
doorways is that which leads from the 
house direct into the garden; for 
through it you step from one world to 
another, as completely as did Alice 
when she crawled through the looking 
glass. This doorway will form part of 
the house but should form part of the 
garden too, since it will be the termina- 
tion of an important vista, and should 
be something more than the usual house 
door having in it a suggestion of out of 
doors. 
Almost a perfect example of a door- 
features 
A doorway between two parts of the garden, formed 
by pedestals supporting vases. Terra cotta in a variety 
of designs is suitable here 
and garden to house. 
THE? GA RD EN | DIAN Ge As Zag 
This Philadelphia dooryard garden is a delight both from house ‘to garden 
The white gate and arch of Roses are pleasant 
way from the house to the garden is 
that of the residence of Mr.’ James L. 
Breese at Southampton, which is here 
illustrated. ‘The house itself is one of 
the most beautiful and characteristically 
American of our larger modern resi- 
dences. The architects have treated the 
building throughout in a very simple 
Colonial way, but have succeeded in 
producing a real home of large size and 
great dignity, but from which the ele- 
ment of stiffness is entirely absent. The 
same sentiment has been very happily 
carried through the garden which is 
enclosed at one end by the house and 
two of its wings, and along two of its 
sides by pergolas extending out from 
the wings of the house. This garden is 
entered in several very charming ways, 
of which not the least attractive is the 
doorway illustrated. This door is just 
the sort of thing that an architect likes 
to see between the house and the gar- 
den; it is a lovely piece of design, and 
is flanked by fine big round box bushes 
and framed by Clematis. The pavement 
of the path which leads to this door in 
itself is a thing worth study. It is 
brick laid without cement; grass is 
growing up in the chinks, and there is 
an expression of complete unity of de- 
sign in the blending of the natural and 
the artificial. 
The other illustration of the garden 
shows how satisfactory the treatment is 
in all respects; to the architect this is a 
good setting; to the gardener a place 
with lots of flowers, and to the land- 
scape architect a good piece of design, 
well contained by the house. The 
rather surprising absence of the cus- 
tomary furnishings of the garden is 
noticeable; benches, dials, or figures, 
and a dependence upon the flowers for 
the general interest, and upon shrubs 
APRIL, 1916 
to mark boundaries and cross- 
ings. 
JAN VERY perfect example of 
harmony between house and 
garden is shown in the photo- 
graph of the Philadelphia door- 
yard garden. The garden itself 
is lots of fun and is perfectly 
bully with the house, and nas 
two most excellent varieties of 
doorways to the garden; one 
from the house to the garden, 
and the other from the garden 
to the street. Anything pleas- 
anter than this white gate, its 
row to which it forms an in- 
terruption, would be hard to 
conceive and when the archway 
of Crimson Rambler Roses is in 
bloom it seems very near per- 
fection. 
A very different and very 
lovely garden doorway is that 
of the Blair house at Bar Har- 
bor. Here is really no door, but 
only a doorway formed by ped- 
estals supporting vases, and 
flanked by heavy foliage. It is 
different from some of the 
others, but not less pleasing, in 
spite of the fact that it has no 
immediate connection with the 
house, and is a doorway between 
two parts of the garden. 
ie OFTEN happens that a formal gar- 
den or a garden of any sort, because 
of natural conditions of the ground will 
be separated by a considerable space 
from the house itself; at the same time 
the doorway to the garden should be 
very plainly marked, approach to it 
from the house should be so obvious as 
to constitute almost a necessity of ap- 
proach by that particular direction, and 
as a rule the general breadth and pro- 
portion of the garden should be indi- 
cated and carried back to the house in 
some way by rows of trees, by paths, or 
by planting. 
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Here is a garden gateway that could not well be 
attached to the house, yet is well enough as a frame- 
work for vines 
posts sunk deep into the hedge- 
