HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1915 [ 
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A path runs along the whole length to a tool house. It is shut 
off from the lawn by a hedge and for part of the way it is under 
the curving pergola. This pergola offers support for grape vines. 
It is very simply built, its curve is interesting, and its pointed 
roof construction gives a rather quaint impression. It is built 
very low and is set so far below the terrace that in a very few 
years it has become almost hidden by the growing trees and 
shrubbery. It has that quality now of fitting into its place, which 
is an essential of pergolas which many never seem to acquire. 
On the side of the pergola is an oddly-shaped little piece of 
ground given to roses and small fruits. Many kinds of native 
and bush roses are planted in a thick mass along the terrace wall. 
Rosa blanda, spinossissima, Persian yellow, rubrifolia, rubiginosa 
(the sweetbriar), nitida, lucida, Madam Pantier and Carolina, to 
give them in their succession of bloom, make a bright tangle of 
color for the terrace throughout the rose season. 
Every garden should have roses for cutting, and yet Hybrid 
Tea and Hybrid Perpetual roses can never be associated with 
shrubbery. It is difficult to find an appropriate place for them 
in a garden which is developed in such a naturalistic way as this. 
Here they have been planted with the gooseberries and currants, 
for both roses and small fruits to develop good flowers and fruit 
need to be arranged as specimens. If roses cannot have the 
dignity of a separate rose garden, which is hardly possible in a 
small place of this kind, and where intensive use ought to be 
made of every bit of ground, this combination of roses and small 
fruits is a very good one. 
To the north of the roses is the drying yard tucked away behind 
hedges. Iris and chrysanthemums are planted along the side of 
the hedge. To the south of the roses is an oblong plot originally 
planned for the vegetable garden. In a logical development of 
a piece of ground around a house all the service part of the ground 
is kept together. It can then he easily screened away from the 
other parts and can be easily taken care of. As here, it is best 
always near the kitchen side of the house. 
If the lot had not been capable of expansion the oblong would 
have been the only possible place for the vegetable garden. As it 
is, the vegetable garden was transfered to a strip of giound along 
the southern side of the property, some six feet below the level 
of the lawn. For all intents and purposes, as far as the view 
and the garden are connected, the vegetable plot does not exist, 
still it yields its full quota of vegetables in a good, sunny, southern 
location. 
This change from the original vegetable plot is quite an advan¬ 
tage. Vegetable gardens are not especially attractive and should 
be put as far away from the house as possible. This change gave 
an opportunity to transform this oblong into a secluded little nook, 
which has a certain distinction despite its diminutive size. 
The great old apple tree makes it a nice, shady little spot. 
The roots of the tree made any planting on the oblong a difficult 
matter, but, as in the solution of many problems, its very limita¬ 
tions created the best development. The ribbon border of flowers 
with the simple lawn space between gives a charming effect. 
Yellow iris grow on one side, white and pink peonies along the 
other. When in bloom they give a brilliant color effect, at other 
times the decorative peony foliage and iris sheathes make a good 
border effect for the little lawn. 
While the east side of the property is allotted to utilitarian 
purposes, and shows in its development how pretty such a useful 
little strip of ground can be made, the west side was developed 
purely in a decorative way. 
The outcropping ledges immediately to the west of the house 
are overgrown with wichuriana roses and in among them such 
rock plants as the yellow-flowered Sedum, pink and white Phlox 
subulata, and Helianthus making bold and striking groups of 
autumn bloom. 
A west path, starting at the terrace and making a big, generous 
curve to the extreme western side of the grounds, balances the 
path along the east side. Each path has a distinct character and 
is quite different 
from the other. 
( Cont. on p. 369) 
The west path is informal, passing through masses of shrubbery that stretch their branches over it. Low-creeping flowers grow over the rough stone edging, and here 
and there the shrub mass is broken to give views of the lawn through the gaps 
