House and Garden 
A CORNER OF THE GARDEN 
From a Water-color Draining by the Architects 
shade of the house, the front plot has been 
treated simply with a raised terrace, paved 
with brick, laid herring-bone fashion, and 
surrounded by a high privet hedge with 
white Roman seats, making a sort of small 
forecourt inside the main hedge which runs 
along the sidewalk and encloses all the front 
part of the lot. 
The entire back of the lot is enclosed by 
a gray stone wall, seven feet high and having 
a shingled cap; and there is also a dividing 
wall, which separates the paved service yard 
from the rectangular garden proper, which is 
about 48 x 60 feet. This gives a sunny and 
entirely private domain, treated simply with 
a border of bright flowers surrounding a rec¬ 
tangular grass plot and gravel walk. There 
is a sun-dial and wall seat and lattices for 
vines with steps of field stone bedded in the 
grass leading up to the piazza. 
The cost of the garden with its seats and 
hedges is but slightly over that of the regu¬ 
lar finished grading, and the owner has a 
charming retreat in which he can enjoy as 
much privacy as would be afforded by a 
thousand acres. 
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