June, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 199 
seen. Very large laid down. The 
places are sometimes American garden 
planned with a sepa- 
rate gateway and 
drive for the service 
quarters of the es- 
tate. Where it seems 
better to have but 
one gate and drive- 
way it may be so laid 
out that a separate 
road will lead from 
the main drive direct- 
ly to the servants’ en- 
trance, kitchen and 
stable or garage. 
About the house 
hedges are of great 
value, for besides 
dignifying and laying rare 
emphasis upon cer- eon 
tain parts of the 
place, such as the en- 
trance to the house, 
they may be used as 
screens about minor 
buildings, service entrances and elsewhere in places where 
good taste suggests that they be employed. Nothing adds 
more greatly to the dignity of a country place than the 
grouping of outbuildings rather than the scattering of them 
about as is so often done. Such buildings upon many well- 
planned estates are so arranged that they are connected, 
often being literally under one roof, and the entire struc- 
ture then becomes an architectural unit and may be dealt 
with accordingly. Where this treatment is impossible or 
undesirable the buildings may be placed closely together and 
joined or connected with hedges, panels of lattice-work, 
trellises or other devices which will seem to unite them. 
The garden of a country home is one of its most im- 
portant departments. It is usually an out-of-door living- 
room and is generally placed where it has an obviously 
direct relationship with the house itself. Being in a sense a 
part of the house it should be given a certain retirement 
and privacy which is frequently secured by surrounding it 
with a hedge of Privet or Arbor Vite. Sometimes, if there 
be sufficient space, a garden may be divided into sections 
where in one part 
roses may be 
grown together 
—a water garden 
might be made in 
another division 
and there might 
even be a Japan- 
ese garden which, 
more than any 
other section, 
would require a 
definite separa- 
tion from the 
other gardens 
about it. No two 
gardens are quite 
alike, for their 
charm lies to a 
great extent in 
their diversity. 
No definite rules 
for the making 
of gardens can be 
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Floor plans of the first and second stories 
The lawn front of the house presents one of its most pleasing aspects 
differs considerably 
from that of Eng- 
land and both Eng- 
lish and American 
gardens are quite un- 
like those of Italy, 
where flowers are 
considered of less im- 
portance than 
hedges, trees, foun- 
tains and garden 
marbles. The Ameri- 
can garden therefore 
has a character of its 
own and upon even 
the most formal 
of estates maintains 
an air of independ- 
ence and freedom 
from the restraint of 
tradition. Scarcely 
anyone would think in 
these days of having 
geometrical flower- 
beds filled with different colored foliage plants to represent 
maps of the two hemispheres, and it may be said with con- 
fidence that nowhere to-day does there exist a vast checker- 
board made of two varieties of the same plant, the keeping 
of which in a state of carefully trimmed precision required 
the greater part of a skillful gardener’s time. The charm 
of the American garden consists very largely in its democ- 
racy, for the same flowers bloom in the gardens of the rich 
and the poor, and Nature—being no respecter of persons— 
showers her smiles and her favors upon all alike. Certain 
of our garden plants have come to us like our language, 
literature and customs, by right of inheritance, but others 
belong to us of our own right, and all are represented in 
the gardens which surround American country houses. 
Evergreens are a very important part of the setting of 
a garden, and indeed of any part of a country estate, for 
during the Winter when the surroundings are bleak and 
dreary their bright foliage attords a helpful bit of cheering 
color when cheer in the country landscape is greatly to be 
desired. Verandas and terraces, which are really closely 
related to gar- 
dens and garden 
making, are more 
than ever impor- 
tant to the coun- 
try home. Many 
houses such as 
this beautiful 
home at Roslyn 
have several ver- 
andas and ter- 
races besides the 
entrance porch, 
which of course is 
hardly to be re- 
garded as a Sum- 
mer lounging- 
place. These out- 
of-door spaces, 
whether roofed or 
mot, ame really 
the heart of coun- 
try house living, 
most of the year. 
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