Old Time Gardens 
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garden-making — that special art. On this page 
is shown the finely proportioned terrace wall, and 
opposite the upper terrace and formal garden of 
Drumthwacket, Princeton, New Jersey, the country 
seat of M. Taylor Pyne, Esq. This garden affords a 
good example of the accord which should ever exist 
Terrace Wall at Drumthwacket, Princeton, New Jersey. 
between the garden and its surroundings. The name, 
Drumthwacket — a wooded hill — is a most felici- 
tous one ; the place is part of the original grant to 
William Penn, and has remained in the possession 
of one family until late in the nineteenth century. 
From this beautifully wooded hill the terrace-garden 
overlooks the farm buildings, the linked ponds, the 
fertile fields and meadows ; a serene pastoral view, 
typical of the peaceful landscape of that vicinity — 
