THE RESULT OF A COMMUNITY ENDEAVOR TO REVIVE THE PAST 
GLORY OF A COLONIAL TOWN—GARDENS ON HILLSIDES 
A vista through one of the terraced gardens showing 
the box bordered path and the pool 
colored, unsightly. 
Wholly unlike 
these is the wall 
of smooth - faced 
brick in soft 
bronze - red, with 
its slender coping 
of brown, which 
incloses one of the 
most interesting of 
old Kingston’s 
many beautiful 
gardens. 
Along the top 
of the wall little 
steps at rather long 
intervals break 
what, without 
them, would be a 
hard line. This 
tends to make it a 
perfect background 
for the vines and 
fiigh-growing flow- 
•ers which more 
than half conceal 
it. 
An authority 
suggests that a 
garden should be 
placed at the side 
and a little back of 
the house, and this 
is so placed. Passing down a few shallow steps—ivy embroidered 
at the edges—then along a path which divides the rose garden, 
and down more shallow steps of gray stone, one is in the garden. 
In planning it, the pivotal idea was a room out-of-doors. 
Co-ordinate with this idea of a room is what may be called a 
rug of grass — soft, thick and fine as velvet—bordered widely by 
flowers that cover all the space within the wall, save at the center. 
Here the flowery border curves in toward the wall, leaving an 
open space on either side of a pool, where are placed graceful 
white slat seats. 
With no perceptible motion the water goes in and out of the 
pool in a way which keeps it wholesome for the fish, which, like 
splashes of gold, move about in it, and yet the lilies, “the lotus 
of the North,” which lie on its surface, and flourish only in still 
water, put forth opulent blossoms in their season. The border 
about this pool is exceptionally interesting. It is not of the water 
plants commonly 
used, but is of 
sweet alyssum in¬ 
termingled with the 
cool blue of agera- 
tum. These are not 
only charming as a 
border but effec¬ 
tively carry out the 
composition of this 
garden - room, 
where recurring 
notes of white hold 
all together in a 
way that shows the 
unities have been 
carefully consi¬ 
dered in its ar¬ 
rangement. 
The flowery bor¬ 
der of the big grass 
rug—it is about six 
feet wide, and if it 
were straight its 
length would be 
about three hun¬ 
dred feet — is held 
to the grass by a 
broad fillet of 
sweet alyssum. 
There are white 
flowers among the 
others which grow 
high against the wall, where the Dorothy Perkins rose, holly¬ 
hocks and delphenium are dominant. These, with the flowers in 
the border, blend quite as do the colors in a fine oriental rug. 
It is easy to see that this border is made up of rare kinds of 
familiar flowers. There are petunias, for instance, the big white 
A GARDEN 
in connec¬ 
tion with a wall 
calls up visions 
of restricted areas 
at the rear of city 
houses, where 
things grow in a 
halting way sur¬ 
rounded by walls 
that are high, dis- 
The combination of brick path and rustic furnishings make this pivotal point a veritable garden living-room. 
Around the pool are sweet alyssum and ageratum 
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