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House & Garden 
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THE SHRINE IN THE GARDEN 
Every garden should have a shrine—some shaded, secluded 
spot where one can lay aside care and open the senses to 
the delicate beauty of flowers, the perfume of blossoms, the 
soft soothing of gentle winds and the music of birds and 
trickling water. It may be merely a bench underneath a 
tree or as here, in the garden of Henry G. Lapham, Esq., at 
Brookline, Mass., a walled-in platform built above the gar¬ 
den level and roofed with vines and pergola beams. Olm- 
stead Brothers were the landscape architects 
