HOUSE AND GARDEN 
328 
May, 
DU 
The house stands back from the street behind a hedge of roses and across a close-cropped lawn. Its walls are of while stucco 
over metal lath and the roofing is of shingles stained soft green 
result of my efforts and longing for something grander, when, 
chancing to glance toward the street, I beheld two small dirty 
faces pressed closely against the openings in the iron fence. 
Though dirty and plainly belonging to tenement urchins, the faces 
were all aglow with wonderment and admiration. Long and 
eagerly their bright eyes scanned the interior, and finally the 
smaller of my garden’s admirers, the boy, whispered to his com¬ 
panion, as if audible words might erase the picture: 
“Betty, thath muth be 
Par’dise.” 
“ ’Spect ’tis, Billy. Wish 
we could get in.” 
I have since seen many 
gardens that reminded me of 
the remarks of those two 
tenement children — -that im¬ 
pressed me in very much the 
same way as mine did them. 
Although used to my own 
little garden, these more 
elaborate creations have 
seemed like a picture of Pa¬ 
radise. Here is one of them 
— the three-acre grounds of 
Mrs. J. N. Burns at Pasa¬ 
dena, California. 
But if one has studied gar¬ 
dens from a constructive 
point of view, he instead will 
probably be reminded by the 
accompanying pictures of 
some grand old garden of 
Italy — some romantic giar- 
dino. True, it seems more 
modern and better kept, for 
the elegant gardens of Italy 
are all old — many, even, all 
but forsaken. There, too, 
will be a suggestion of the 
gardens of Spain’s Anda¬ 
lusia, with their classic col¬ 
umns and semi-tropical flowers and vines. But still there is 
much that belongs to neither Italy nor Spain — an influence that 
is still more modern. Therefore, let us describe the whole as 
just Californian. 
America, and especially California, is particularly favored in 
climate and in many other ways for the creation of beautiful 
gardens, and it is indeed regretable that the opportunities are 
not more often made use of. The benefits to mind and body 
Tbe fireplace side of the dining-room is paneled in dark wood, the remaining walls being covered 
with a neutral-toned paper that makes an excellent background for the mahogany furniture 
The Italian motif has been carried out in the interior architectural 
details, as shown here in the high carved mantel and its decorations 
