14 
II 0 u s c S’ Garden 
BUCKLY 
STAIRS INTO THE SKY 
Garden paths are one thing, garden steps another. Paths 
wind and wind. They flow whither they will, like capri¬ 
cious brooks, between flowery banks, dart under trellises 
that span the stream for honeysuckle and rose, and lead 
out into the infinity of some hay-scented meadow. But 
garden steps are always steps. Direct, resolute, persist¬ 
ent, they go toward their destination, leading from height 
to height like stairs into the sky. And this is true whether 
they are on a formal estate or in the tangle of an old- 
fashioned garden such as this, at the residence of Richard 
Arnold Fisher, Esq., Newburyport, Mass. 
