Book of Gardens 
69 
THE GREEK GARDEN on THE 
ESTATE of SAMUEL UNTERMYER 
GREYSTONE, NEW YORK 
WELLES BOSWORTH, Architect 
Standing at the edge of the upper terrace 
and overlooking the swimming pool is a 
Greek temple of marble Corinthian col¬ 
umns and a circular entablature open to 
the sky. It is executed in Alabama marble. 
The whole garden answers the poet’s ques¬ 
tion, “Why Go To Greece?” 
Down the midst of the garden runs a shallow canal bordered by 
arborvitae and specimen cedars and low-growing evergreens. At 
the farther end is the Greek theatre flanked by tall columns bear¬ 
ing lordly sphinxes that ivere executed by Paul Manship. The wall 
enclosing the grounds is crowned with hard-outlined battlements 
such as Troy might have known 
From one end of the pool runs a per¬ 
gola with an old apple tree overhanging 
the water and casting its shade on the 
glimmering surface. An apple tree in a 
Greek garden l Let’s see—in one of her 
fragments, doesn’t Sappho speak of an 
apple tree and the golden fruit that was 
always too high to reach? 
