14 
House & Garden 
The approach to the garden at 
“Bushey Park,” residence of C. T. 
Ballard, Esq., is a veritable pilgrim¬ 
age down stately walks and through 
an iron grill gate to the restful sim¬ 
plicity of the broad tapis vert 
making the terrace to the left of 
the house, the setting of a garden. 
Around the vine-covered balus¬ 
trade enclosing this terrace- 
garden are great beds of pansies, 
of heliotrope, of begonias, of 
standard roses, bordered with 
close clipped box. Stone steps 
lead picturesquely down to a lower 
level of greensward. From the 
rose-entwined “look-outs” of this 
charming terrace, one catches re¬ 
freshing glimpses of the Ohio 
flowing far below. The tranquil 
note, which of all others is the 
most desirable in the garden, is 
here delightfully in evidence. 
“Fincastle” and Others 
Among others of these “river 
gardens” which are especially 
worthy of note are the formal, 
sunken garden at “Fincastle,” the 
home of Judge Alexander P. 
Humphrey, and the garden at 
“Bushey Park,” the estate of 
Charles T. Ballard, Esq. 
“I do hold it, in the royal 
ordering of gardens, there ought 
to be gardens for all the months 
of the year, in which, severally, 
things of beauty may be then in 
season.” One instinctively thinks 
of that artless, magnificent com¬ 
mand of the great Bacon, when 
The garden at “Winkworth,” home of 
W. E. Chess, Esq., is the old-fash¬ 
ioned, indigenous type, of a mellow 
loveliness, perfected and brought up 
to date. It commands the farther 
reaches of the Ohio 
flowers, iris, roses and a wealth of 
other flowers glow and burn. 
The simple, natural beauty of 
the plan of this garden coupled 
with the apparent irregularity of 
the planting and the luxuriance of 
jt'.s rich color scheme, are really 
enchanting. Here nothing is 
forced, nothing distracts the eye 
and the interest to the exclusion of 
the garden as a whole. The pool 
in the center has entirely the effect 
of nature with its concrete con¬ 
tours softened and almost con¬ 
cealed by masses of creeping 
Japanese juniper. 
A flowery afterthought to this 
lovely garden is the vgry wilder-* 
visible in the. photograph. Here 
one literally walks upon a carpet 
of violets, 'while rambler roses, 
syringa and lilacs make the air 
heavy with sweetness. 
ness of bloom stretching beneath; 
it on the far side,and* rallied jjj» 
descending the •stone* steps iust 
“ Lansdowne ” 
Still farther up the Ohio shore, 
at “Lansdowne,” the home of S. 
Thruston Ballard, Esq., member 
of the committee working with the 
National Council of Defense on 
Economics, the landscape artist 
lias had the happy thought of 
Imagine just happening on “Edgecombl” It is hid away behind walls, 
and you gain entrance through the pergola on this side 
