House and Garden 
TREE MOVING 
cotta vases filled with blossoms, 
contrasting the benches of Ital¬ 
ian marble. Would a consist¬ 
ent Italian garden have been 
more appropriate, ora Japan¬ 
ese grotesquerie, when on loolc- 
ing up and away from its 
stunted artificialities one’s 
glance should rest upon the 
sombre grandeur of a Maine 
landscape ? It is of a charm 
all its own, and its anachro¬ 
nisms need no defence, since 
they have produced an ensem¬ 
ble that is its own justification. 
The disregard for a definite 
character referred to above 
was also carried out with re¬ 
spect to the 'stable and laundry. The 
latter stands, as may be seen in the illustra¬ 
tion, on a steep hillside with the vertical 
line of trees around it. Its steep roof and 
dormers were designed to harmonize with 
the character of the original house. The 
stable is set down on the level plain across 
the road and below the garden. It was 
designed in an entirely different character, 
since it seemed more natural to accentuate 
the horizontal lines in this situation rather 
than the vertical. It was, too, necessary to keep 
as low a roof line as possible to avoid cutting 
off a bit of the distant view from the garden. 
Another part of the work that developed 
great interest for the designers were the high 
retaining walls at the sides of the drives. 
The only stone available for the purpose was 
the common split face granite of the locality, 
which is a difficult material with which to 
build in the hope of achieving any result 
that shall prove at all satisfying in a place 
wherein the effect of the finished work must 
harmonize between the natural rock walls 
and their artificial substitute. As usually 
built, nothing of its kind is more cold, unsym¬ 
pathetic or uncompromising than a split face 
granite wall. It was imperative, therefore, 
that some means should be tried of imparting 
warmth of color and texture to its surface. 
This was accomplished by splitting the blocks 
of granite into as long and narrow pieces as 
possible, and these were then 
laid, as far as practicable, in 
courses, keeping long, contin¬ 
uous, horizontal joints. 
To further accentuate these 
joints, long, thin stone chips 
were built into them, thus 
giving the effect of a double 
]oint between the larger stones, 
of which the wall was com¬ 
posed. On completion, all the 
joints in the stonework were 
raked back two or three inches 
and the effect of the duplex 
horizontal joints was then of 
two long-lying parallel shadows 
with a narrow line of light, 
made by the stone chips 
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