The entrance doorway 
the road in the midst of its spacious and beautiful grounds. 
The broad driveway terminates before the entrance front 
in the large space provided for the convenience of arriving 
and departing motorists, and this graveled space is sur- 
rounded by a tall trimmed hedge of privet. The service 
quarters, placed as they are at one end of the house, are 
reached by their own driveway and entrance so that by far 
the greater part of the house is surrounded by the broad 
lawns which are spread out upon all sides. “The casement 
windows of the living-room open into a terrace and also 
upon a veranda, paved with brick and surrounded by bay 
trees, vines, shrubbery and the other accessories which con- 
tribute so greatly to the comfort and beauty of such spots. 
An extensive and very beautiful formal garden has here 
been planned and built and careful cultivation has already 
produced unusually successful results, for most gardens, dur- 
ing their first few years, are interesting chiefly by reason 
of their promises of beauty and floral luxury to be achieved 
at a later day when nature has had time to co-operate 
with the art supplied by the landscape gardener’s magic 
and skill. 
Here the garden is surrounded by a clipped hedge and 
grass walks divide flower beds of square and oblong shapes. 
The beds are filled with all the old fashioned flowers which 
have at last triumphed over any showy superficialities and 
have returned to their own in American gardens. Arches 
are being made of privet which will mark the entrance 
to the garden, and 
of climbing roses 
which are being in- 
duced to mount wire 
frames or wooden 
trellises. Stone 
benches and other 
garden adornments 
are placed at the 
sides or ends of the 
wide grass paths. 
Just outside the gar- 
den hedge are 
massed shrubbery 
and various kinds of 
flowering plants and 
beyondthe barn 
stretches away into 
heavier under- 
growth and wooded 
tracts still farther 
away. 
The architects of 
a large and import- 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
A view of the grounds looking out over the garden 
June, 1912 
The reception-room 
ant country place have an unusual opportunity for planning 
complete and spacious grounds, giving to each department 
of the estate the consideration and space which it demands. 
A picturesque method of arranging the road frontage of a 
large country home would be to build a tall fence—perhaps 
of wire netting—upon strong cedar posts. Such climbing 
plants as Woodbine and the hop vine might be planted 
thickly below the fence and their growth during a single 
season would screen the wire netting from view. With this 
wall of solid green as a background there might be planted 
a profusion of such shrubs as Sumac, Elderberry and Jap- 
anese Maple, with occasionally a flowering shrub such as 
Lilac, Snowball or the plant sometimes known as Burning 
Bush. All this tall growing shrubbery would effectually 
screen the grounds and render the roadway past the estate 
particularly attractive. 
The entrance to an extensive country estate may be very 
dignified and should correspond in style with the architec- 
ture of the residence and the other buildings upon the place. 
Gate lodges are considered appropriate only where the 
dwelling-house is far from the roadside, and where this 
treatment cannot be had tall piers may be placed at either 
side of the entrance and a gate of wrought iron hung be- 
tween them. Sometimes four such piers may be used where 
it is desired to have smaller gateways at either side of the 
entrance used for vehicles, and often the piers may be con- 
nected by archways if a very formal and dignified effect be 
desired. The en- 
trance may be fur- 
ther adorned with 
lamps, either as 
brackets fastened to 
the pil eirisi ois 
standards upon 
them or placed di- 
rectly upon the 
ground at either 
side. Within the 
grounds the _ plan- 
ning may be done to 
create the effect of 
a much greater 
space than actually 
exists, and this can 
almost always be 
done by placing 
groups of shrubbery 
to break the view 
that at no one place 
may the entire ex- 
tent of the estate be 
