HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
their various idiosyncrasies. 
One appreciates the suc¬ 
cess of the scheme as he 
walks out from the living- 
room onto the porch and 
looks into the garden. That 
is the only direct entrance 
into it, as a desire for pri¬ 
vacy has induced them to 
shut it in naturally with 
vine-draped fences and 
thick planting alongside all 
its boundaries. So one 
gazes into a little separate 
world, apart from the pry¬ 
ing sight of passersby. It 
is a garden of rectangles 
with not a single curving 
path. Directly before you, 
as the plan shows, is a 
dirt path running left and 
right. Three small walks 
at right angles to this di¬ 
vide the area in four, and a 
smaller path parallel to the 
first one makes four little 
square beds with two ob¬ 
long ones to right and left. 
On the center point of the 
crossing paths is a little 
stone lantern of Oriental 
origin, and at the four cor¬ 
ners of this intersection are 
four little conical box trees 
which are used instead of 
the box borders. At the end of this same central path is a lattice 
summer house of dark color trimmed with white painted edges. 
This lattice construction is echoed in the porch trimming and in 
the arbor connecting the two main lawns. 
So much for the arrangement — a little as to the planting. 
There is a fine opportunity for balance and gradations of color 
here. Each bed is trimmed with a narrow edging of grass, next 
to which the white masses of alyssum crowd, and rising a little 
above this are the broad leaves of geraniums. The center is 
The living-room and porch have the 
lawn to 
full sweep of both lawn gardens. The arbor leads down from the square 
the smoothly rolled grass of the long green 
generally a mass of phlox. The side beds are planted with nico- 
tianas and early annuals, for there is a restriction that limits the 
choice. The family is away during August and early September, 
and selects therefore only early or late blooming flowers, as it 
seems a pity to have their beauty wasted. The fence and summer 
house are thick with vines, and the back beds grow tall clumps 
of golden glow and hollyhocks. A succession of late bloom fol¬ 
lows in all the beds. Dahlias are then most prominent, and the 
cosmos is bulked into the background. 
The box-bordered brick walk meets an entrance doorway of the 
Salem type 
From the vestibule a flight of steps leads up to a spacious hall open to the 
bedroom floor 
