Mr. White's Hume at St. James , L. 1. 
the upper layer resting at right angles 
upon the four lower beams. Honeysuckle 
climbs the corner columns and shades the 
interior pavement. In the center of this 
space is a pool, coped with marble and sur¬ 
rounded by various potted plants and carved 
fragments. A more perfect harmonious 
blending of nature and architecture is diffi¬ 
cult to imagine. 
The main garden is divided from the road 
by another tall box hedge and a row of 
catalpa trees. A Venus and a satyr raise 
Roman work, and between them are finely 
carved basins filled with flowers, and resting 
on the back of crouching lions. The outer 
edge of the drive running from the house 
to the west is formed by a terraced masonry 
wall, upon the coping of which, spread in 
great tubs, prickly, juicy cactus plants. 
Outside an ivy-covered wall is a smaller 
garden, an extension southward of the larger 
one. A large bed of flowers occupies the 
center of the space, and box trees and hedges 
enclose its paths. 
A TERRACE WALL MR. WHITE’S PLACE 
their heads just above the hedge. Not only 
here, but wherever the position may be a 
good one, Mr. White has placed a piece of 
old statuary, sometimes a Greek capital, 
standing on the lawn between olive-leaved 
bushes, a row of amphora? against a wall, a 
rich terra-cotta vase, an ancient carved 
sarcophagus or a finely modelled head upon 
a marble base. Thus facing the outer oval 
of the drive in front of the main entrance 
stand four herm<e of the very best Graeco- 
To reach the view, we must retrace out¬ 
steps through the whole of the garden and 
walk past the piazza of the house. 
The terrace, which has been built a couple 
of feet below the level of the first floor, is 
forty feet wide and is supported by masonry 
walls, topped with bluestone wide enough to 
form a sufficient base for the largest tub. 
When our illustrations were taken, a row of 
these stood on top, with the flowery heads 
of pink and white hydrangeas hanging low 
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