December, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



2. The trees indicate boundaries without emphasizing them, and the spaces 

 between the trees bring the distant landscape into the garden 



3. One side of the croauet lawn, showing how the low retaining wall is almost 

 hidden by the alpine flowers (pinks, etc.) which are planted in the crevices 



gives such a miniature landscape as is 

 shown in Fig. 2. The second outdoor liv- 

 i.ig-room is the vegetable garden, flanked 

 by fruits. The third living-room is the 

 flower garden seen in Fig. 7, a winding path 

 between borders of hardy perennials set 

 off by hedge and shrubbery. The fourth 

 living-room is the croquet ground, one 

 side of which is seen in Fig. 3. The fifth 

 iiving-room is the little water garden 

 down by the meadow where the loveliness 

 of mirrored rock plants is shut off from 

 other parts of the garden by climbing roses. 

 These five living-rooms appeal to five old 

 instincts of the human race — the desire 

 for food, the passion for flowers, the love 

 of rural landscape, honest sport, and the 

 charm of water. 



The fifth and last principle is the necessity 

 of framing pictures. If this were all one 

 garden instead of five, with no hedges or 

 waUs of shrubbery, the charm would be 

 all gone. The hedges act as frames. And 

 wherever you leave one compartment and 

 enter another Mr. Paine has put an arch, 

 e. g., in Fig. 4. Think away that arch of 



4. Arches add greatly to the pictorial effect of these 

 gardens. Five of them are placed at entrances to gar- 

 dens or at the beginning of paths. Roses and larkspur 



climbing roses and the path beyond would 

 seem long and uninteresting. There are 

 five of these arches which tie all parts of 

 the garden together. So, too, the sky 

 line must not be forgotten. Many people 

 ruin the pictorial effect by planting straight 

 lines of Lombardy poplar. Such things 

 do not exist in nature. Consider the sky 

 lines of Figs. 2 and 3. How much richer 

 and more varied in form, texture and color 

 they are than the sky line of a poplar 

 windbreak or privet hedge! Notice also 

 in the plan the summer house and the 

 pergola — two excellent devices for secur- 

 ing shade and comfort and for breaking 

 up a large view into little ones. 



Every garden has its limitations. The 

 present one does not produce all the fruit 

 and vegetables needed by the family. 

 There is a good deal of repetition which a 

 professional designer would avoid. For 

 example, there are two sheets of water and 

 half a dozen little rock gardens, and certain 

 flowers are likely to appear in every com- 

 position. The scale of operations is too 

 great for one man even in a climate 



A glimpse of the miniature pond and rock garden, showing the great 

 variety in height and form of the surrounding rock plants 



6. Another glimpse of pond and rock garden which are seen from the summer 

 house at the back of the dwelling. The pond is flanked by bamboos and bog 



