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The Garden Magazine, December, 1921 



interesting than "landscape gardener" types, those "gardens 

 without a past." But this garden must always have been 

 unique. It was planted originally by Rose Standish Nichols of 

 Boston, and has been improved and given added character since 

 by the owners. 



THERE are in fact five gardens on the place, if you under- 

 stand considerable plantations of flowers as "gardens." 

 The terrace, L shaped, 1 50 x 50 ft., is all flowers and tubs of 

 Oleanders (a welcome change from the overdone Box and Bay), 

 and is accessible by stepping from the windows of the living- 

 room, the dining-room, breakfast-room, library, and study. 

 There are two fountains on this terrace; and, as every garden 

 must be enclosed, this is folded between the main house, the 

 balustrade and the Cedars of the adjoining woods. Then there 

 is the wild garden, surrounded by woods; the water garden in 

 the ravine; and a very extensive and formal vegetable and 

 "picking" garden; all connected by galleries or allees through 

 the woods lined on either side by closely planted and trimmed 



trees; and allees are cut through the woods at various points, 

 creating vistas with statuary at dramatic points. 



The great garden — open only for some sixty feet on one side, 

 to give a glimpse of the fountain from the house, and surrounded 

 by a raised terrace and then by a dense Cedar planting — is tied 

 to the house by the tapis vert, flanked on each side by a row of 

 Hawthorns, as formal as any garden could be. In this garden 

 Mrs. Ryerson entertains, and here plays are given, the audience 

 looking down from the gazebo or tea-house. Infinite charm is 

 added by this walk down the long avenue from the house: it is 

 another room connected by a hall. A little of the dramatic — 

 not theatrical — helps every garden. No garden is independent 

 of its approaches and surroundings, as no picture is independent 

 of its frame, or the room it hangs in. 



The four statues on the fountain came from an old garden in 

 Verona. The tea-house ends one axis of the garden; and a gate- 

 way flanked by pergolas is opposite. The feature of the whole 

 planting is the judicious and profuse use of Cedars, which have 

 been transplanted from the Wisconsin woods by the carload. 



TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA— AND TWO LADIES 



Quite reconciled and at ease appear these old-world folk brought across the seas and established 

 as guardians of the pool in the "great garden" at Havenwood. (See descriptive text above) 



