THE LURE OF THE GARDEN 
have given excellent object-lessons in suiting house 
and grounds to each other and both to the surround¬ 
ing country. 
Personality in a garden is as unmistakable as it is 
in a human being, and as elusive. The garden that 
expresses personality is rarely the work of the pro¬ 
fessional landscape artist. It is a quality born only 
where the man or the woman who loves the place 
and means to live there plans and contrives and labors 
to fulfil an individual demand; a garden so constructed 
contains more than just the stones and green growth 
that meet the eye, in the same manner that a picture is 
more than its paint and canvas, or even the cunning 
workmanship that has skilfully placed the one upon the 
other. And this personality is precisely the peculiar 
characteristic of most of the gardens in the midst of 
which these writing and painting folk have set up their 
habitations. 
Perhaps the best known of such places are those 
among the Cornish hills in New Hampshire, where a 
colony of professional people have been building and 
gardening for some five and twenty years, and have 
evolved a type of garden that combines something of 
the flavor of its wild setting with a distinct feeling of 
home, gardens that are American and at the same 
time intensely individual. Various they are, some 
scarcely larger than a tennis-court, and simple as a 
wild pink; others occupying a considerable space and 
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