AMERICAN 
OMES AND GARDEN 
The Garden of Dudley Olcott, Esg., 
at Morristown, New Jersey 
By Mira Edson 
Photographs by Alman & Co. 
SoaG)|L1E life of mankind, beginning in a garden, 
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its happy moments. All imaginative ideals 
of life include a garden as their setting; all 
nations have embodied the dream of a gar- 
den in their literature and poetry, and in 
most minds the thought of the possession of a garden has 
been as the acme of all life’s outer gifts—a symbol of plenty 
and of joy. 
The love of gardens and the making of them, which we 
find increases always as conditions become more full of 
leisure, is not a fad or a fashion, but a very real human 
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desire; and, like everything else that is human and of any 
importance, has existed since the beginning of man’s activity 
on earth—even earlier, if we are to accept Sir Thomas 
Browne’s biblical inference. We remember Babylon first 
of all as the home of the wonderful “hanging gardens,” 
even before the palaces and deeds of kings come to mind; 
Persia, China and all the East have known gardens which 
were not only beautiful in form and color, revelling in trees 
and flowers, as we understand it, but full beside of definite 
meanings as their art of whatever kind is—the garden itself 
being a symbol of the universe, and as such containing 
emblems of Life, Death, and Immortality. Of the English 
anted borders of this garden, by broad paths of attractively arranged bricks, there is felt the sense of 
pleasant seclusion that a private garden should always evoke. 
It is a notable example of what can be done in America 
