st room 
AND GARDENS 
each side of the door is a green trellis that supports clematis; 
beyond, at the ends, is Virginia creeper. On the step are 
two grotesque marble dolphins, and at the base are two small 
red terra-cotta jars, each containing a mimic Scotch pine. A 
great gray-pebbled circle lies before the door; in the center 
is a marble block supporting a large yellow-brown pottery 
jar. The further border of the circle is arranged as an 
exedra, with a semi-circular seat of concrete with marble 
ends. In the center are marble steps to a higher pathway; 
here and at the ends are red pots containing small bushes of 
pyramid box. Above the steps is a grassed path that pres- 
ently loses itself in the distant woods. At the beginning it 
is bordered with peonies, high-growing lilies and tree 
hydrangeas, which are continued to two stands of clematis 
and a couple of poplar trees. Then comes an apple orchard, 
and here the path border consists of large ferns; further off 
and rare Colonial furniture 
A modest simple dwelling: stuccoed, light granite gray in color 
these give way to mountain laurel, and finally, when the 
path has penetrated the dense wood, the border is low hem- 
locks. On the left, at the beginning of the path, is the tennis 
court, so overshadowed by the woods as to be completely 
without sun in the afternoon. 
One enters the enchanted space in which all this simple 
beauty lies through a picket gate in a brick wall, drab painted 
and overgrown with Virginia creeper. Just without are 
two shaped hemlocks. On the right is a low stone wall, 
capped with white marble, above which is a hedge of clipped 
lilacs. Inside a brilliant ower border of hardy phlox, golden 
glow, larkspur, poppies, lilies and other gay flowering plants 
runs to the exhedra and beyond it. ‘The forespace there is 
arranged with great simplicity but in quite a formal way. On 
the left is a square of lawn; sunk in it, near the studio, is a 
small square lily pond with white marble border. The lawn 
The drawing-room mantel is red Numidian marble 
