In Tranquil Mood 
Midsummer Gardens 
Photographed 
by 
Mattie Edwards Hewitt 
More and more we of America are coming to an 
appreciation of gardening in its freer aspects. 
The banishing of the gilt sofa and the conversion 
of the “parlor” into the “living-room” have been 
companioned by wiser ways with gardens too— 
we have for the most part abandoned the method 
once so much in vogue of forcing nature into some 
preconceived mould; the old distortions of “clip¬ 
ped” trees and “mosaic beddings” no longer find 
favor; artificiality is being supplanted by a 
sympathetic consideration of the plant’s own 
tastes, and so we have inviting gardens like this 
of Mr. Kenneth Van Riper at Greenwich, Conn., 
where grasses and vines and sturdy dwarf Pines 
scramble about at will 
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