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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1907 









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The Giant Oak and the Water Landing 



it is beautiful, and hence it tills all the requirements of a gar- 

 den. It is interesting in design, and hence it is attractive 

 in its general plan and layout. It is novel, of course, because 

 it occupies a novel situation, and the general design is quite 

 distinct and unusual; but these are, in a sense, accidental 

 characteristics, and are thoroughly subordinate to the more 

 important fact that the garden is supremely lovely, a verit- 

 able concentration of loveliness, a distinctly notable place 

 among a host of other notable places. 



And, then, beyond it all, sweeps the blue waters of Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, affording a boundless outlook. From above 

 one looks down over the terraces and their beds of brilliant 

 bloom, across the outermost wall, to the deep blue of the 

 water. It is, as it were, a cluster of rare jewels set in a crystal 

 setting of limitless extent. I am very sure the garden would 

 not be half so beautiful had it not this water outlook; and I 

 am very sure also that the water rarely looks so lovely as 

 when viewed from this sea-garden. 



