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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1909 
The garden at the rear of the house is inclosed with a red brick wall 
garden, enclosed with a white-painted fence of Colonial 
style. ‘This garden is laid out in a geometrical form, with 
the various shaped beds filled with plants and shrubs, which 
give a brilliant coloring continually, from the hyacinth and 
dattodil of early spring to the end of the fall, when the 
main beds are a mass of cosmos beauty. A central walk 
extends through the garden, broken only by a sun-dial, placed 
in the center of the garden, from which the other walks 
radiate. A tea-house is built at the end of the walk, from 
which a broad vista is obtained of the distant hills and the 
surrounding country. Messrs. Fehmer and Page, of Boston, 
Mass., were the architects of this splendid house, and they 
have planned it and laid out the grounds to meet the require- 
ments of a country estate of distinction. 
The beauty of the design of this house lies in the fact 
that both the owner and the architect had but one idea, and 
that was to build so that there would be something real in its 
design and plan, and avoid any purely surface display. 
A latticed fence painted white forms the inclosure for the formal garden 
