May, 1917 
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Photograph by Buckly 
THE STORY BEHIND STONE 
We are apt to forget the romance of stone—the fires through which it passed 
to fuse its rich colors, the ages of cooling when were crystallized those glisten¬ 
ing particles that give even the humblest boulder life and action. Grasp that 
story, and you will make m.ore use of stone in your garden. You will appreciate 
its ruggedness, its color, its life. Perhaps you loill even be inspired to build, 
as was built here, a garden wall that is romantic and lovely in itself. It is in 
the garden of Benjamin Joy, Esq., at Harvard, Mass., of ivhich Ralph W. Gray 
was the architect 
