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Volume XIV. NOVEMBER, 1921 
Number 6 
A Little Arcadia in the Heart of 
Stamford, Conn. 
By Edward F. Bigelow, ArcAd iA : Sound Beach, Connecticut. 
A LMOST in the heart of the city 
of Stamford, Connecticut, really 
in the heart of one of the most 
modern developments, Quintard Ter- 
race, I have found an oasis. Here is 
nature amidst the arid conventionali- 
ties of the latest development of real 
estate interests. 
I had been told by one who is well 
versed in recently developed homes, 
suburban and otherwise, that here I 
would find something to delight my 
eye, here I should find picturesque, 
wild nature. 
The house itself and the front door- 
yard convey an impression of artistic 
taste in architecture. A pleasing sight 
is the stone veranda, stone porch, well 
arranged shrubbery in formal manner 
at the edges of a small but closely 
mowed lawn, yet. as I rang the door- 
bell, I began to fear that after all it 
will be only formal nature study that 
I shall find here, perhaps with a slight 
flavoring of originality, but for real 
Arcadian nature I shall probably look 
in vain. After I had introduced myself 
I was told that the artist was busy for 
the moment, but to make myself at 
home in the surroundings where a little 
work had been done in rustic gar- 
dening. 
As I walked by the side of the house 
I was surprised by the croaking of a 
frog that sounded not unlike the bark- 
ing of a dog. No more unlikely place 
for such warning — or was it welcome? 
— could be imagined, but a frog it was 
in a stone bordered pool. I thought at 
the time that the frog’s cry was merely 
coincident with my entrance, but later 
when Mr. L. V. Carroll arrived and I 
asked him to show me how he ar- 
ranged the plants and feeds the frog he 
said, “Do you know that frog is a 
good watchdog? It barks at every one 
that comes on the premises.” A frog 
under these conditions might well be 
called a “barking” animal. 
Mr. Carroll had to work with a rough 
and to most persons an unpromising 
back yard. An owner of less artistic 
taste would have cleared up the rub- 
bish and set out, perhaps, a few formal 
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