The Garden Magazine, August, 1924 
391 
‘GRAY ROCKS ARE KINDRED OF THE MOULD 
THAT BRINGS MY SEED TO FLOWER, 
COMPANIONS OF THE BITTER COLD 
AND OF THE SUNBRIGHT HOUR” 
Hilda Morris 
Fitness is so obviously a fundamental in the making of any¬ 
thing from a teaspoon to a palace that even to mention it may 
seem in the nature of an anticlimax, but, after all, it is the 
rather reckless disregard of fitness that gives us so much bad 
furniture, so many offensive houses nowadays. The beauty 
of this Pennsylvania home rests primarily upon the sense it 
conveys of belonging to the land, of being in accord with its 
own time and place, simple and enduring like the stones of 
the field which went into its making, strongly linking dwelling 
and garden. Designed by Mellor, Meigs & Howe for Mrs. 
John F. Meigs II 
