284 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1909 
a rowboat and a small ponds on the 
bitch scanocewate slightest — provoca- 
moored. tion. 
The drive, which 
connects with the 
house by the way of 
the stable, enters 
the glen with the 
brook, and skirts it 
to the point of its 
terminal turn near 
the cascades. It is 
continued in a foot 
path which crosses 
the bart dere; and; 
turning, follows the 
foot of the glen and 
reaches a flight of 
rustic wooden steps. 
Just prior to the 
beginning of the 
steps cut into the bank, in a semi- 
circular basin, is a spring. ‘This 
having been stoned up at the back 
discharges its water into the basin 
over the face of a flat inclined and 
projecting stone. The outlet to 
the basin is under the walk into 
the pond. 
About half way up the steps a 
narrow pathway branches off and 
follows the shore of the pond at 
a steadily decreasing grade until 
it reaches the cabin. ‘This path- 
way is well shut in by trees and 
shrubbery. 
Other than these walks or side 
paths already mentioned, the path 
motive is effected by the use of 
flat stones placed in the clipped 
grass-plots, after the manner of 
Japanese stepping-stones. This 
stepping-stone effect is still further 
carried out in the shorter runs of 
steps from the glen to the upper 
level. The use of stones for the 
purpose above mentioned is to be 
commended. The inevitable weed- 
ing and trimming 
up of the path are 
avoided; it is simply 
necessary to keep 
the grass cut. This 
is from the labor- 
saving view of the 
matter; artistically 
their effectiveness is 
not to be _ ques- 
tioned. Such stones 
used on the level 
stretch should be set 
flush with the soil, 
Of) wate least not 
enough above it to 
hinder the easy use 
of the mower. If 
they be set lower 
than the soil they 
readily’ become 
View from “D” on plan of “Glenbrook,” showing the boat-landing 
and its relation to the cabin 
View from “E” on the plan of “Glenbrook,” showing lantern, 
stepping-stones, and rough stone steps in the background 
View from “C” on plan of “Glenbrook,” showing the stone bridge and cabin 
The single stone 
Japanese lantern is 
extremely simple, 
and seems to set just 
in the right place, 
where it may be 
utilized to light the 
cabin entrance and 
the steps to the 
house level. This 
lantern is the only 
real Japanese touch 
employed, other 
than the stepping- 
stones. The interior 
furnishings of the 
cabin are largely 
Japanese, but these 
are naturally outside of the out- 
of-door consideration. 
This brief description, together 
with the plan and pictures, will 
give a general idea of the layout 
of “Glenbrook.” It is not ambi- 
tious; in fact, it is simple, and thus 
more easily realized. The owner, 
however, has not completed it all 
at once; on the contrary, it has 
been a slow growth; a bit here and 
a bit there, as the humor sug- 
gested. It was not what may be 
called an expensive job; just what 
it may have cost is impossible to 
say, as it was constructed largely 
by the employees of the owner at 
odd and spare times. It is unique 
as an example of the informal 
sunken garden, and, shut off from 
the rest of the world as it is, one 
forgets in the midst of its deli- 
cious quiet that the other ever 
existed. 
What more, indeed, does one 
need, and in what better way could 
one have set about creating his 
own garden? There 
is an endless pleas- 
ure in the work, 
which ceases to be a 
task if one puts 
one’s heart into it 
and sets about it in 
the right way. The 
garden of ‘Glen- 
brook,” it seems to 
me, exhibits all the 
beauties of garden- 
making in a singu- 
larly beautiful way. 
Not that it is the 
most beautiful of all 
gardens, but it has 
brought to its owner 
and creator the full 
satisfaction of a fine 
work finely done. 
