70 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1909 
An old-world water jar in a sheltered corner 
A Swiss cottage in the woods 
A Wood Garden 
By Phebe Westcott Humphreys 
WOODLAND often presents opportuni- 
ties for decorative utilization which may 
im) Be ips well be described as a wood garden. An 
MAA | interesting development of this somewhat 
unusual type of exterior decoration is 
attorded by the country seat of Mr. H. H. 
Battles at Newton Square, Pa. After a 
short drive through the home grounds, and past the stately 
old country mansion, the main driveway leads down into 
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Rockery and well 
one of the most alluring stretches of woodland in all Dela- 
ware County, a woodland that has for centuries been taking 
on that perfect charm, serene and mature, which only time 
and the deft touch of unhindered nature can accomplish. 
Here are beautiful old vines climbing far up into the tree 
tops, and clumps of low-growing evergreen shrubbery, while 
spring-fed woodland pools in the valley windings mirror 
lordly old pines reaching out their evergreen branches from 
the steep hillslopes above. 
Simple beauty in the woodland dell 
