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"Rebel Ridge 



Home of 



IRVIN S. COBB 



Westchester County, N. T. 

 Clarence Fooler 



Landscape ArcKitect 



Photographs try Harry G. Heal]? 



THREE miles or so from the village 

 of Ossining, Irvin S. Cobb, enter- 

 taining tickler of the popular risibles, 

 makes his home in the midst of fifty-odd 

 acres of smiling meadow and woodland 

 of Westchester County, N. Y. 



Charmingly placed on a hillside, the 

 house (designed by W. G. Massarene) 

 overlooks these rolling acres and the 

 distant spires of Ossining reaching up 

 from the valley of the Hudson. A few 

 steps up from the drive the visitor passes 

 under a picturesque stone arch draped 

 with Wisteria and follows the paved walk 

 across a grass terrace to the front door. 



A great Elm on the west and a group 

 of large Spruce and Hemlock opposite 

 so amply shade the terrace that the 



Here the bloom of gray blue Iris 

 pallida dalmatica and pink 

 Petunia Rosy Morn lend their 

 lightsome gaiety. On the wall 

 edge are lilac and white forms 

 of Moss-pink with Pfitzer 

 Juniper giving evergreen effect. 

 A Japan Cypress, feathery and 

 soft textured, supports the pro- 

 jecting house line. Elms beyond 



On this rocky ledge, with ample soil 

 depth filling thecrevices.isastrangely 

 vigorous growth (in such a setting) 

 of border perennials— Shasta Daisy, 

 Larkspur, etc. with trailing Roses 



