April, 1909 NES REGAN “HOMES AND GARDENS 153 
to maintain. 
Care has been 
Peer Clse ain 
Teele planting the 
beds so that 
color contrasts are not jarring 
in which the 
house was lo- 
cated. On ac- 
count of the 
existing drive- 
ways the plot of 
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Per acailahle > and so that the flowering time of 
; the beds is well distributed over 
for the forma pone ee eh the garden. Tall plants 
ae a a == = ests grange 4 are placed in the outside 
irregular = shape nee ea gs peer : beds away from the sun- 
toward the front. Peabo dial. The tennis court 
The tennis court —— is a turf court, which, although 
was made stand- es not so good for tennis as a skin 
ard double court a fe court, is better in appearance. 
size and the per- . a ope As shown on the plan and in 
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gola designed on the illustration, the pergola is 
the arc of a circle Sections showing details of construction built on the arc of a circle whose 
Looking across the garden to the tennis court and pergola 
radius is one hundred and five feet. At the center it 
is enlarged by two extra columns, forming a bay, 
which gives a space for chairs and 
tea table. The columns are built 
SQ * of No. 2 Colonial dark red brick on 
* gravel concrete footings. This 
brick ordinarily retails for eight 
dollars per thousand. The joints 
are made of white mortar and are 
gouged out. This style of joint 
and color of mortar in con- 
trast with the dark brick gives 
a series of distinct lines to the 
column. The column is fin- 
ished off with a concrete cap 
molded in an oiled frame form 
made for the purpose. All the 
overhead work is No. 2 yellow 
pine, rough finish, stained a dark 
brown. The floor is made of the 
same brick as the columns. The 
total cost of the pergola was 
under three hundred dollars. 
In reviewing the work after the 
lapse of several years, the principal 
mistakes appear to be the placing 
to fit the court. For a background at the rear of 
the pergola a hedge of Siberian arborvite 
has been planted. A screen of 
sunflowers shown in the illustra- 
tion forms this background tem- 
porarily, while the evergreens are 
small. 
The formal garden is symmetri- 
cal about the two broad paths that 
run at right angles to each 
other and center at the sun- 
dial. A few beds, whose sides 
are made by arcs of circles, 
carry out the idea of the de- 
sign centering on the sun-dial. 
The ground has a slight slope 
of about one foot to the long 
dimension of the garden, 
which has proved advantage- 
ous for storm water drainage. 
All paths are in grass. The 
four feet by eight feet beds 
are considered, after two years’ 
experience, to be superior to the 
smaller ones. Keeping the edges 
of the beds straight in line is made 
easy by stretching a string across all of a column instead of an open space at 
edges on the same line. The edge of the center of the pergola and in making the 
beds on arcs of circles have not been hard Plan of garden, tennis court and pergola Size of some of the beds too small. 
TENNIS COURT 
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