210 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1911 
Part of the formal garden 
dotted with blue salpiglossis. A fourth bed, one hundred 
feet long, shows a carpet of pink Antirrhinum, with edging 
of pink saponaria, dotted with Richard Wallace canna. A 
fifth bed, measuring thirty feet, has a carpet and edge of 
crimson nemesia, dotted with Cleome pungens. The sixth 
and seventh beds, arranged on each side of the rockery path, 
are planted alike and consist of a carpet of dwarf white 
petunias, dotted with Salvia patens and edged with dwarf 
white Verbena and white saponaria, alternating. 
The rockery was constructed with stones and boulders 
taken from the estate as the work proceeded. ‘The plant- 
ings are arranged in blocks and drifts and average about 
one hundred plants of a given kind to each block, includ- 
ing a choice array of alpines. 
The water garden is arranged partially inside the rockery. 
It is sixty feet long, and in shape is like the figure eight, with 
a rustic bridge across the narrow part. One portion is plant- 
ed with hardy lilies, and the other part with tender lilies. 
To the southwest of all, and contiguous to the river, is 
the thatched summer house. 
The gardens were designed by John S. Critchley, who 
also directed the execution of the work. 
The naturlesque garden 
