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midst of which is a carved marble vase surmounted with 
a bronze cupid that serves as a fountain. The entire enclosed 
space is grassed, save for the gravel paths and the group 
of flower beds near the center. These are gay with flowers, 
and are filled, for the most part, with old-fashioned plants 
that are so generous of their flowering. There are flower 
borders all around the enclosing walls, and close by the per- 
gola are low trellises, stained brown, for the support of 
trained fruit trees. 
Each transept is entered by an archway or arbor of wood, 
painted white, and surmounted by a segmental arch. They 
stand in the center of a rectangular recess arranged in the 
body of the side walls, the space between the walls and the 
arbors being filled in with a screen of evergreens. ‘The 
transepts are treated with delightful simplicity, and are 
enclosed lawns with floral borders next the walls. Each 
ends in a semicircular apse, in the center of which the solid 
wall gives way for a balustraded bay, beneath which is a 
built-in-seat. As elsewhere, the planting here is chiefly of 
the old-fashioned sorts, and is largely of hollyhocks and fox- 
gloves. Wonderfully brilliant and delightful these tran- 
septs must be in their period of full flowering, with their 
simple quiet centers, and their rich gay borders! 
Although the enclosing wall of the Italian garden em- 
phasizes its separation from the rest of the estate, and at 
once creates and maintains its identity, the planting imme- 
diately exterior to it is really an integral part of it. The 
entrance is set back but a slight distance from the outer 
roadway, but there is quite sufficient space between it 
and the wall to permit of a generous planting of small 
trees and shrubs. On the other side, beyond the innermost 
wall, is a hedge of lilacs rising above the wall coping; and 
here, also, are many climbing roses and clematis which, rising 
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The corridor of the second floor 
up without the garden, clamber over the wall, with long 
branches falling inward. Beyond are immense open fields, 
but some fine old oaks rise between the garden and the 
house, which on that side is thus slightly shaded. But, 
for the most part, the garden lies in the warm sun, for 
the better growing of the flowers and the greater brilliance 
of their blooming. 
A final word or two on the stable. Although compar- 
atively near the house, this is scarcely visible from any 
part of it save the kitchen wing. It is an immense build- 
The library is paneled in oak and has a Caen stone mantel 
