House and Garden 
designer to his task with nothing less than 
affectionate devotion. Lacking this, the re¬ 
modeled place may lose all that distinction of 
locality which was there only awaiting to be 
developed. 
The amount of change at “ The Garth ” 
has certainly not been excessive and the im¬ 
provements have been carried out in entire 
sympathy with the subject and its environ¬ 
ment. Along the road fronts of the prop¬ 
erty an unobtrusive fence has been built of 
tively inside. The color of the weather¬ 
beaten woodwork has beeir changed to a gray 
blue, which makes no uncertain harmony 
with the white walls, and gives the place at 
once an air of distinction. To the house a 
lofty portico was added, designed on the free 
classic lines which marked the work of Colo¬ 
nial days, and under this shelter a doorway 
has been enlarged and ornamented, for it is 
now the main entrance to the house, it is 
reached by a brick walk which leads across 
THE PERGOLA CONNECTING THE STABLE WITH AND THE TOOLHOUSE 
rustic cedar poles set close together vertically. 
It is eight feet high in front of the house in 
order to realize the last thought to occur 
to the original builders—privacy. Farther 
on the fence is low, and passers-by on the 
road can easily see over it into the garden. 
Gaping windows of the old building were re¬ 
duced in size with wood in the interest of 
good proportion both within and without; 
and the remaining space of a window,— 
which may once have been a door,—is now 
glazed in quaint panes and curtained attrac- 
the garden a few feet above the level where 
carriages stop, just inside the gate, finding 
later the stable, fifty yards farther on. 
The stable is new and built of frame, plas¬ 
tered and whitewashed to match the house. 
At one end is the laundry, and thence a per¬ 
gola extends a distance of fifty feet and con¬ 
nects with a minor building comprising a 
toolhouse and woodshed. At each end of 
the pergola, in the corners of the buildings, 
are recesses which play the part of shelters 
or summer houses. These are important in 
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