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GARDEN 
We are all too apt to consider a fountain as a garden luxury beyond our means. Given an adequate water supply, 
a simple concrete basin of this type may be built very inexpensively. Chas. W. Leavitt, Jr., landscape architect 
An interesting variation of the usual garden is shown 
above, where instead of being in path-divided beds, the 
flowers are massed around an open grass plot, edged 
with stepping-stones 
your nouse is ot the Colonial type, nothing will so 
well serve to bring the garden into harmony with it 
as a white-painted picket fence and arched gate 
It is an idea full of real hospitality that provides a home 
flower garden flanking the central path which is the 
main entrance to the house 
w ater renasan invaluable charm to any garden, pa 
ticularly when it is made to serve as an opportune 
for informal bridges and rock-edged ponds 
and 
Mr. J. B. Mott’s home at Bellport, 
the English type beyond which’a 
door swimming-pools in America 
has adjoining it a formal garden of 
to one of the few private out- 
Whether your garden is large 
through the introduction of 
in an architectural feature 
enormously in enectiveness 
provides a vista terminating 
The garden at “Biair Eyrie,” Bar Harbor, Me., designed by Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul, architects, contains at one 
corner a tea house, from which, over the foreground of flowers, one may enjoy a distant view of the mountains 
One sees pergoias or ail materials and an types in pres¬ 
ent-day American gardens, but seldom a more effec¬ 
tive crossing feature than this one of octagonal plan 
Of all pergola types that modern ingenuity has devel¬ 
oped, the combination of white plaster columns with 
dark creosoted beams is probably the most effective 
“ Willowdale,” the summer home of Mr. Harry B. Rus¬ 
sell, architect, on the shore of Cape Cod, contains 
a typical old-fashioned garden, where the flowers are 
massed informally along the grass paths 
If you are fortunate enough to have an old well in your j 
garden you will do well to make a feature of its top 
and covering as Mr. Chauncey Olcott did with his 
twelve garden 
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