September, 1907 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 325 



Notable American Gardens 



* By Barr Ferree 



Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden at Beverly Cove, Massachusetts 



SEA-GARDEN is to me one of the most architects, certainly, have not been behind hand, or unduly 



striking and interesting of gardens. Per- modest, in appropriating to themselves any good thing they 



haps it is because the coast I was earliest could find already done by others. But surely a Sicilian 



familiar with was a sandy waste, in which garden on the North Shore promised too great a contrast 



only the poorest sort of shrubs grew, and to have true reality. Needless to say I approached Mrs. 



the scarce, stumpy trees were hardly worthy Norman's garden with the liveliest curiosity, 

 to be dignified with such a name; perhaps From the land it is a garden of the utmost privacy; one 



it is because I have only seen such gardens of late, and hence scarce sees a jar-top above the inclosure that screens the 



they come to me with every quality of novelty. But what- property from the bounding roadway. You come into it 



ever the reason, a sea-garden has irresistible charm to me, from the house, and the whole of its beautiful loveliness is 



the charm of novelty, the charm of beauty, the charm of spread out before you, seen in a glance, and then one begins 



vast outlooks, the charm that comes from gently moving to take in the wonderful detail of its design and planting, 

 water in closest proximity to Bower-decked land. The garden is not large, and fortunately a garden need 



It is a far cry from Sicily to the North Shore of Massa- not be large to be beautiful. But it is a garden that, I am 



chusetts Bay. It is true that almost everything native to very sure, has heavily taxed the ingenuity of the designer, 



Europe and Asia has, at one time or another, and in more Mr. Brown, of the well known firm of Boston architects, 



or less evident shape, been transplanted to America. Our Eittle & Brown. Not that any bit of it is forced, but it 



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Terrace Below Terrace Descend to the Outer Supporting Wall 



