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From one end of the pool runs a per¬ 
gola with an old apple tree overhanging 
the water and casting its shade on the 
glimmering surface. An apple tree in a 
Greek garden I Let’s see—in one of her 
fragments, doesn’t Sappho speak of an 
apple tree and the golden fruit that was 
ahvays too high to reach? 
On either side the theatre is a wall shelter 
of marble, a small structure of great beauty, 
restrained and chaste in the fashion of 
classic Greece. And here again is a branch 
of Sappho’s apple tree. You need but close 
your eyes to see her come down those steps 
Down the midst of the garden runs a shallow canal bordered by 
arborvitae and specimen cedars and low-growing evergreens. At 
the farther end is the Greek theatre flanked by tall columns bear¬ 
ing lordly sphinxes that were executed by Paul Manship. The wall 
enclosing the grounds is crowned with hard-outlined battlements 
such as Troy might have known 
