House <y Garden 
knots bordered with box and cut by straight 
walks covered with pebbles from the beach of 
the Sound near by. The knots are filled with 
all manner of shrubs and plants, climbing 
roses, morning-glory, iris, hemerocallis, holly¬ 
hocks, oleanders, hydrangeas, marshmallows, 
kalmia, phlox and larkspur. 'They are typi¬ 
cally English flowers, while the lemon, the 
laurel and the orange tree have been excluded. 
There are eight equal sized knots, bound 
together and surrounded by a thick old box 
they form a strong middle point, a charming 
central feature around which the smaller beds 
group themselves. On the opposite side of 
the driveway, immediately before reaching 
the house, a small pond adds—with its banks 
almost level with the turf—a charming effect 
to the picturesque commonplaceness of the 
scene. Magnificent box-trees in front and 
honey-suckle climbing the posts and cornice 
of the entrance porch, hide this almost entirely 
in the view from the house. 
hedge, about three feet six inches high. 
Smaller closely cropped box, about nine inches 
high again borders each bed. No better shrub 
could have been selected for this, both because 
of its closeness and compactness, and because 
it neither strays to the right nor left, but keeps 
on in its own path in a most business-like 
manner. In the middle of the garden where 
the axes cross, are two intersecting climbing 
rose arches; a perfect explosion of flowers, 
comme le bouquet d'un feu dbartifice vegetal , 
The staircase hall with the front stairs are 
directly in front of one in entering the hos¬ 
pitable doorway, the former in its total width 
nearly bisecting the depth of the house. To 
the right is the dining-room (19T 21'), to the 
left the library (2c/x 20') with a billiard-room 
(i8 / x20 / ) directly back of it. Adjacent to 
the dining-room are the kitchen, pantry, 
scullery and storerooms, next to the library 
comes the large living-room (3 1 'x 23') which 
the visitor enters in going down three steps 
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