House and Garden 
the glass doors opposite lead into the “Court,” 
while the garden lies to the right and may 
be reached through the reception room on 
that side of the house, or by a little green 
door opening in the wall near the front 
entrance. 
1 lie garden is sunken about two leet below 
the terrace and court. It is laid out with 
formal design and has simple brick paved 
parks—the centre, transverse one, leads to 
a charming recessed circle which is one of 
the most attractive features of the place. 
I here is a walled seat and an octagonal table 
all of the period, where afternoon tea becomes 
an aesthetic pleasure. 
In the centre of the table stands a beautiful 
vase, done in Pompeiian bronze from a 
Herculanean model and Neapolitan in make. 
At about the height of the eye this recessed 
circle is furnished with apertures in the wall, 
supported by columns, from which a superb 
view of ’Scutney and the surrounding country 
is opened up. From this vantage point, one 
may look straight across the valley to Max- 
held Parrish’s house, “The Oaks,” so rarely 
visible in Cornish, or down upon Mr. Platt’s 
quaint house nestling close by the roadway. 
The garden expresses Mrs. Hapgood’s feel¬ 
ing for color. It is a wild tangle of blue lark¬ 
spur, and in the season, purple-pink cosmos, 
wonderful clumps of headed blooming annuals 
of the same hue, phlox in profusion, heliotrope 
THE GARDEN 
THE BREAKFAST ROOM 
and other softer plants which lie close to the 
soil and make a rich blue carpet. 
A low cement wall runs about the garden 
on the side toward the terrace, overgrown 
with luxuriant straggling grape vine. At 
intervals along its broad top are set pieces of 
Italian sculpture unknown -save the goat, 
which is Herculanean but all charming. 
Outside the walls, on the terrace side, dense 
shrubbery, of arbor 
/itae and young pines, 
serves to conceal the 
garden while the side 
toward the road is 
screened by a six-foot 
wall. 1 he end toward 
the tennis court leads 
to the studio—a stucco 
building not used at 
present. Of the stat¬ 
uary which the Hap- 
goods brought from 
Italy- there is a terra¬ 
cotta reproduction of 
Verrocchio’s “ Boy with 
a Fish” upon the walls 
of the terrace; a pea¬ 
cock in terra-cotta, 
sculptor unknown, 
upon the balustrade, 
while on the upper ter¬ 
race are two urns— 
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