House and Garden 
the island lights, Roxbury, Standpipe, Presi¬ 
dent Roads and Bunker Hill Monument. 
But nearer at hand than these and screened 
by the grove from the house, the garden 
reigns in an isolation supreme. At the end 
distant from the house the walks make another 
turn and, after descending flights of steps to 
a second level, they unite under the pergola. 
polite court of the flowers. The pergola is 
in the second level or “ lower terrace,” 
whose walks encompass the garden as did 
the first, and divide the sloping, flower- 
decked banks that make two opposite sides 
of the dressed enclosure. Three feet lower 
still lies the main level of the garden where 
large parterres, richly planted and colored, 
A WALK OF THE LOWER TERRACE 
The ornament on the left , in a bay of the upper terrace , is an armillary sphere from an old English garden 
Within this the visitor pauses in the shade 
of vines overhead, and looking across a near¬ 
by sea of merry bulbous-rooted begonias, in 
full flower, he has before him a new view of 
the garden, the opposite of that seen from the 
grove. From this point the young con¬ 
ifers over there make a background to 
the fawn-colored and gray stonework below 
them withholding their wildness from the 
surround on equal terms that vision of 
peace—the garden lawn. 
It is an Italian garden, if anything in this 
country ever is or can be Italian, because 
the design relies tor its effect upon architec¬ 
tural parts. Terraces embellish and protect, 
doing for it what earth banks nor flowers 
alone could never accomplish. Gazebos, per¬ 
gola, the long lines of balustrade and parapet, 
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