House iff Garden 
might easily have been built in its present 
shape when the oldest of its trees were 
planted ; and that is saying a great deal in an 
age when palaces that ought to stand in im¬ 
mense gardens and chateaux that ought to 
have high forests are stood up one after the 
other, side by side within cook’s shouting 
distance; hopelessly inappropriate in their 
surroundings. 
To return to the prototype ; what an open- 
armed hospitality is expressed in the porch 
of Mount Vernon ! How easily the stranger 
on the lawn finds access to the welcome on 
the porch ! Likewise in Mr. Emmet’s house. 
From the entrance where the plain white 
picket gates, always standing wide open, 
between four gate-posts of the best Colonial 
type, to the high two-storied piazza with its 
broad steps; there is no doubt that the place 
has an air of countrified neighborliness. 
I he secret ot tying the house and the 
garden well together by making them both 
units of the landscape, has been well appre¬ 
ciated by the designers. Transitory connect¬ 
ing links are there. As one drives in through 
the gates down the little avenue “ Sherre- 
wogue ” lies sleepily comfortable in front of 
one, with only its second story windows at 
first peeping above the high box and be¬ 
tween the old ailanthus and oak-trees. 
Immediately in front, sweeping down in 
the broad sunlight in all the tranquil grace 
of its simple English predecessors, lies a 
garden. Sedding in his garden book men¬ 
tioned where Hawthorne, in “Our Old 
Home,” speaks about the Puritans. “There 
is no softer fruit,” he says, “ to be found in 
the character of these stern men, than that 
they should have been sensible of their 
flower-roots clinging among the fibres of 
their rugged hearts, and have felt the neces¬ 
sity of bringing them over sea and making 
them hereditary in the new land.” 
Even now, the seed of their flowers unmis¬ 
takably remind one of their former gardens. 
“ The savour of the roses swote ” 
“Me smote right to the herte rote.” 
The garden is geometrically divided into 
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