December, 1912 
years ago, when the 
house was built, a 
post and rail fence 
adorned the bound- 
ainy Nite hovel 
though bucolic 
enough in char- 
acter, was not par- 
ticularly pleasant to 
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look upon. A per- 
fectly trimmed and 
orderly hedge 
would have looked 
too prim and not 
at all as though it 
belonged in the 
fields, so the master 
fee] 
and mistress. of 
Second floor plan of ““The Hedges” “The Hedges” hit 
upon the happy plan—worthy of emulation in like condi- 
tions—of setting out a wild hedgerow with everything in 
it from weeping willows to bramble bushes. Upwards of 
three hundred different kinds of things went into that 
hedgerow, all things that. were collected near by, and grew 
like mad. The willows are now tall trees, lower in due 
gradation are dogwoods, sassafras and Judas trees, while 
beneath them is a tangled riot of blackberries, thorns, and 
a formidable array of wildlings too numerous to mention. 
The result has entirely justified the experiment. The 
hedgerow never needs any attention, it furnishes a succes- 
sion of blooms and varied foliage throughout the year, it 
LEO ROIN 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
EX BOSTENIPT: 
The dining-room is one of the most attractive 
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The broad porch overlooking the gardens 
doesn’t suggest a Nuremburg toy-shop origin by its precise 
angularity and it does look as though it entirely belonged 
in the place it fills. 
Outwardly, as already stated, the house suggests a barn, 
one of the roomy old Pennsylvania type with massive round 
white pillars supporting the overshoot. The rough-cast 
walls of glistering white throw the green of the hedges and 
all the planting into high relief while they themselves in 
turn are relieved and softened by the verdure. Along the 
road front the house shows a long unbroken pitch roof with 
ample eaves projecting over a range of broad windows on 
the second floor. The second floor in turn juts out beyond 
the first. [he brick-paved porch, whose floor is on a level 
with the lawn, instead of having a solid roof, has staunch 
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rooms in the house 
