House Garden 
corners empha¬ 
sized by larger 
closely-cropped 
box trees, as 
good to run your 
handover as the 
shaven head of 
an urchin in 
summer. In the 
center is a circu¬ 
lar basin with an 
old Italian mar¬ 
ble fountain in 
its middle. The 
walks, from three 
to five feet broad, 
are paved with 
brick, laid in 
herring-bone 
pattern, with 
straight edging. 
On each side of 
the rose garden 
are more borders, 
flower-beds and 
privet hedge. 
Beyond, 
stretching to the 
north, on each 
side of the main 
axis, lie three 
beds, twenty-two by sixty feet. The central 
ones were originally intended to be basins, but 
this was abandoned. Brick paths and box 
borders continue round them ; and inside are 
fields of splendid color, phlox, lilies, iris, 
hollyhocks, jew trees, Japan weeping cherries, . 
rhododendron, small catalpas and shrubs of 
every leafage, from emerald to olive. In the 
center of the first two plats stand two unusually 
fine plum trees. Enclosing all six a pergola 
runs northward one hundred and forty feet, 
and eight feet broad. The inside is a colon¬ 
nade, having columns hardly seven diameters 
high, with caps of merely a few plain mould¬ 
ings, cast solid in cement. The columns have 
brick cores. The boundary of this garden 
is a brick wall, but recently finished, with 
cement coping and piers rising from it 
opposite every column to carry the cross¬ 
beams above. The brickwork of the wall 
is an admirable example of what can be 
accomplished by careful study and judicious 
employment of 
one of the sim¬ 
plest of build¬ 
ing materials. 
Almost the 
roughest and 
most irregular 
brick procurable 
has been em¬ 
ployed. The so- 
called “Swell” 
brick is laid in 
courses varying 
as follows : first, 
an entire course 
of headers, then 
the brick laid flat 
instead of on 
edge, a course 
of stretchers, 
another course 
laid flat, and 
finally the 
headers again, 
completing the 
pattern. The 
^-inch Portland 
cement joints 
would have 
looked better, 
had they been 
laid in white mortar instead of gray. But the 
purplish-blue rough surface is very remote 
from the every-day idea of the appearance of 
a brick wall. 
On top of the columns and piers lie rough 
five inch by six inch timbers of cypress, 
rough hewn, and on these finally long tam- 
arac poles, with the bark stripped off', but 
the knots and twig-ends left unplaned. The 
roofing of the pergola is broken at the exit 
of the central axis where old marble benches 
and pots make a period of the point. To 
the west of the pergola and parallel with it 
runs the “ Peony Walk,” with two hundred 
feet of splendid peony heads nodding over 
the edges of the box border. Back of these 
are long white rows of hollyhocks and bushy- 
headed catalpa Borgias, then further to the 
west, back of the servants’ quarters, are more 
flower gardens and beds with neat paths and 
rows of fruit trees, two by two, like proces¬ 
sions of schoolgirls. All of this is terminated 
THE PARTERRE WITHIN THE WINGS OF THE HOUSE 
