May, 1909 
The river front is 
given over to the ter- 
raced gardens, 
where old-fashioned, 
box-edged flower 
squares, stocked and 
laid off in the quaint 
Colonial fashion, al- 
ternate with clumps 
of pure white snow- 
balls and delicate 
lilacs or sweet-smell- 
ing calycanthus. 
Narrow prim and 
pebbly walks  out- 
lined with spring 
narcissus and early 
snowdrops, April 
cowslips or violet 
beds lead through 
and over the terraces 
which are separated 
from the lowlier 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
The Lodge gate at Sabine Hall 
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Rolling for nearly 
a mile beyond the 
fruitful orchards 
and garden terraces 
Ateatne Vert dant 
fields and meadow 
lands which slope <o 
the very river edge. 
The bricks of 
which the mansicn 
was built were made 
on the place, and 
while originally laid 
in Flemish bond, 
were washed with 
cement some genera- 
tions ago and pre- 
sent now a soft 
gray tone which con- 
trasts harmoniously 
with the white stone 
facings and dark 
green window 
kitchen garden by magnificent boxwood hedges unequaled in blinds. A quaint one-story wing extends out on the left to 
height and symmetry by any in the country. Planted there which English ivy clings with the picturesque tenacity of 
when America was very young, these marvelous hedges have years. 
fought the fires and strifes and wars of centuries, living 
to-day as they did in a time that is long since dead. 
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The stately portico on the land front of the double-fronted 
mansion is supported by four massive columns of the Tuscan 
The river front of the mansion. The terrace gardens abound with old-fashioned flower squares and with a profusion of snowball and lilac trees 
