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mesticity, its homeliness, its simplicity. We have 
gained infinitely in comfort in our perfect water 
systems and lavish water of to-day, but we have 
lost the gratification of the senses which came from 
the sight and sound of freshly drawn or running 
water. Much of the delight in a fountain comes, 
not only from the beauty of its setting and the 
graceful shape of its jets, but simply from the si ght 
of the water. 
Sometimes a graceful and picturesque growth of 
vines will beautify gate posts, a fence, or a kitchen 
doorway in a wonderfully artistic and pleasing fash- 
ion. On page 70 is shown the sheltered doorway 
of the kitchen of a fine old stone farm-house called, 
from its hedges of Osage Orange, “ The Hedges.” It 
stands in the village of New Hope, County Bucks, 
Pennsylvania. In 1718 the tract of which this farm 
of over two hundred acres is but a portion was 
deeded by the Penns to their kinsman, the direct 
ancestor of the present owner, John Schofield Wil- 
liams, Esq. This is but one of the scores of exam- 
ples I know where the same estate has been owned 
in one family for nearly two centuries, sometimes 
even for two hundred and fifty years ; and in sev- 
eral cases where the deed from the Indian sachem 
to the first colonist is the only deed there has ever 
been, the estate having never changed ownership 
save by direct bequest. I have three such cases 
among my own kinsfolk. 
Another form of garden and mode of planting 
which was in vogue in the “ early thirties ” is shown 
facing page 92. This pillared house and the stiff 
