HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 
DU 
Unassuming in the simplicity of arrangement, this garden of informal lines so sets off the various interesting features of fountain, pool, garden seat and tea house that 
each is distinctive in itself. The charming lattice work fence serves not only as an enclosure, but has a unifying effect as well 
to perfection. The picture is 
from the old Halsted convent 
in the grounds of the Duellings 
estate, Denmark. 
Mrs. Fleight has perhaps one 
weak point, certainly only one, 
inasmuch as its blooms in color 
may fall a little short of 
present-day refined ideals, be¬ 
ing a rather pronounced, old- 
fashioned rose, but otherwise 
nothing but good can be said of 
it. It has a luxurious growth, 
a pretty and very healthy foli¬ 
age and a wealth of flowers. 
Blush rambler makes a good 
companion picture, but differs 
otherwise from the former in 
sundry ways. It is an immense 
grower and has perhaps the 
largest clusters and most abund¬ 
antly growing of any climb¬ 
ing rose; but whilst Felicitc 
perpetue is almost too slight in 
its growth, Blush rambler has 
a tendency to a certain robust 
stiffness, which best suits pillar 
or arch. The one reproduced here (like the former from the 
gardens of Royal Danish Horticultural Society, Copenhagen) 
overhangs a veranda and wall in comradeship with wistaria, the 
fair foliage of which admirably suits its pale pink flowers. 
Thalia best lends itself to standard form with a huge top of 
hanging branches, but is not much good at espalier. The stem 
is six feet high, the tree seven years old. With its multitude of 
small, white flowers it resem¬ 
bles a cherry tree in full bloom. 
This is from the garden of the 
chateau of Knuthenborg, Den¬ 
mark. 
The manner in which ancient 
architecture and vegetation in 
all its profusion of bloom en¬ 
hance and consummate each 
other’s beauty is aptly illus¬ 
trated by the two magnolias in 
front of the old steps of the 
Halsted convent, already men¬ 
tioned. They make an ex¬ 
quisite picture. 
Professor Arnold Krog, 
whose name, no doubt, is also 
known in the United States, by 
virtue of his being the artistic 
leader and rejuvenator of the 
world-famed royal Danish 
porcelain works, has also found 
time and inclination to make 
his gifts bear upon bis delight¬ 
ful town garden and house; 
our picture shows a corner of 
both. 
The picture of a garden wall, archway, and above this a 
pavilion, all adorned with a profusion of climbers and droop¬ 
ing garlands of Ampelopsis, confirms, if it were needed, the 
old truism about the silver lining and the cloud. The road — 
the historic Strandvej, running along the Sound from Copen¬ 
hagen to Elsinore — had to be widened, and this handsome high 
wall, with its auxiliaries, was the outcome. 
The sun-dial is not merely for decorative purposes; its base should be left ex¬ 
posed, as here, to afford easy access 
