House and Garden 
There are to be some changes in the 
planting of the flowers this year, so 
that more than ever the lower growing 
flowers will be placed in the centre of 
the garden with flowers of medium 
height, such as phlox and lilies, grad¬ 
ually working up into the tall peonies, 
dahlias and hollyhocks of the outer 
borders, which are themselves only 
overtopped by the native arbor-vitae 
hedge and the rougher shrubbery 
which surrounds the garden. Thus 
on either axis the flowers will build 
up from the centre to the higher 
things at the sides, and to one com¬ 
ing down the path from the forecouit there 
will be the dominant impression of everything 
focussing upon the quiet pool with its gleam¬ 
ing goldfish and the beautiful bronze dragon 
of the fountain. 
1 he size and material of its paths is one 
of the important considerations in the layout 
of a garden. Here, it was originally planned 
THE TEA-HOUSE 
THE LAUNDRY 
to use for these a fine crushed gray stone 
rolled hard. This looked well until the 
flowers blossomed, but then by contrast of 
color the paths looked cold and blue and most 
unattractive, so the upper surface of the 
crushed stone was mixed with a fine brown 
binding gravel in which a good deal of clay 
was combined, and the change in the appear¬ 
ance in color of the whole 
garden was remarkable. Now, 
in the garden’s second year, 
the paths will be hard and 
fine and in color like the 
paths that are so delightful 
to tread on in old gardens. 
1 he widths of the paths vary; 
the two main ones are four 
feet wide; the four outer 
ones are three feet, and the 
smaller intermediate ones are 
about two. They all have 
narrow sodded borders. 
The soft delicacies of tone 
and rarities of cultivation of 
the flowers of the garden are 
accentuated and brought out 
by the stiff Maine pines and 
the prim, hardy little junipers 
that are used, this conjunc¬ 
tion preparing one for the 
anachronism of the huge green 
bronze fountain from Japan 
in a very formal but un- Jap¬ 
anese basin, the quaint little 
shingled tea-house of no style 
at all but having a delightful 
charm, vine-covered as it is, 
and the great antique terra- 
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