BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
tions of this chapter portray the “lovesome spot,” where 
flowers predominate, with nothing to recall the splendor 
of other lands. A place for the harboring of flowers for 
the sake of the flowers, and this was surely the thought 
that brooded over the first New England gardens planted 
in the early half of the seventeenth century, when Amer- 
ican gardens had their beginning. 
The glimpse through the arched gateway of the garden 
at Knock-Mae-Cree — in old Irish, Hill of My Heart — • 
(Plate 168), and the curtailed view of the flowery planting 
in the Woodside garden stimulate a longing further to 
penetrate into these lovely sanctums. 
The garden at Elmwood is partly illustrated in the 
accompanying picture — it is further gracefully adorned 
with pergola and pool. Liberally designed without being 
elaborate, it has a charm that is all its own. 
Of quite another character is the perfect formal 
garden at Pomfret Center, appealing to the garden lover 
for its surpassing beauty in flower bloom, enhanced by the 
graceful architectural lines of the buildings surrounding 
the enclosure, and giving it the sense of complete privacy. 
Still another type of garden seen occasionally in Amer- 
ica is that at Branford House, a magnificent estate at 
Groton near New London, and one of the famous places of 
that popular summer resort. This stately garden suggests 
some of the foreign gardens familiar to us through travel 
and books. 
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