August, I9II 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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this room available for use as a sun-parlor in winter, are re- 
moved in the summer season, when it has all the value of a 
covered, yet outdoor palm room. 
The whole of the three outer sides of the house is sup- 
ported by a white limestone balustraded terrace. This is 
seen at its best immediately without the loggia, where its 
surface area has been greatly extended. It is paved with 
brick laid on edge, and has large grass plots, and borders 
of flowers—chiefly roses—located just within and below the 
balustrade. 
Beyond and at a lower level, is the sunken formal 
garden. The main axis of this is at right angles to that of 
the house. On the east end is the pergola, semi-circular in 
form, the farther or outer boundary being curved and en- 
closed below with a stone wall. ‘There is a built-in seat all 
around, and in the center of the open space is an Italian 
The living-room 
table of carved white marble. 
The outer side of the pergola 
is thickly planted _ with 
shrubbery and flowers, and is 
the beginning of the floral de- 
velopment of the garden. 
At the opposite end is a great 
spring - fed pond, enclosed to- 
wards the garden by a stone 
wall and stone balustrade, and 
reached by a central flight of 
steps with a section of a semi- 
circular wall on either side. 
The opposite side of the pond 
is left without formal en- 
closure, but the water there is 
The pergola 
