A SUCCESSFUIL ROSE GAROEK 

 OESIO-KEB FOR A FRIEKD 



^^^^ N my friend's garden I might say the house is right in the 

 y ^b l garden. But the location of the house was unconsciously 

 -^^^^i settled by the farmer who had owned and lived on the 

 property for many years. After the house and farm buildings and 

 their thick stone foundations were removed, there remained sev- 

 eral excavations from four to six feet below the level of what had 

 been walks and walls, around the buildings, and so there was not a 

 great deal of earth to be removed that surrounded the foundations. 

 When I saw all the huge holes in the ground, and the piles of good 

 soil and earth that had been removed to take out the foundations, 

 the location of the house was settled ! For here was a site that sug- 

 gested a natural sunken garden. 



It was not necessary to remove much additional earth, and what 

 was removed we used for filling in elsewhere. 



The sketch "The Rose Garden from the South Fountain" visu- 

 alizes the scheme of planting and "garden features." 



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