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& Garden 
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Reproduction of a Colonial Candle Sconce suitable 
for living or dining room. 
Cassidy Company 
INCORPORATED 
Designers and Makers of Lighting Fixtures 
lOl Park Avenue, at Fortieth Street 
New York 
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ANTIQUES 
Enriched as it has been by 
recent importations, the col¬ 
lection of antique furniture 
now on view in the Lans 
Galleries has no equal in 
the country. 
The groups of oak and wal¬ 
nut tables, chests, cupboards, 
and hutches from England, 
express in every simple dig¬ 
nified line the traditions of 
old Britain. 
In contrast are the magnifi¬ 
cent Chaises Longues, Love 
Seats, and Fauteuils, with 
coverings of rare needlework, 
received from France, which 
embody all the elegance and 
esprit of the periods of Louis 
XV and XVI. 
The illustration shows a rare 
old Queen Anne Walnut Sec¬ 
retary with original fittings. 
554 Madison Ave., New York 
CORNER OF 55th STREET 
Branch: 406 Madison Ave. Bet. 47th and 48th Sts. 
PARIS: 32 Faubourg Poissoniere 
A formal pergola 
forms the end of 
the garden pic¬ 
ture as one looks 
from the direc¬ 
tion of the house. 
John M. Dun¬ 
can, architect 
Where Art and Nature Meet 
(Continued from page 76) 
M. Duncan, designed the fountain and 
has admirably succeeded in making it 
a thing of intrinsic beauty, which yet 
serves as a link between the house and 
the garden. In 1918 the balustrading 
was continued around either side of 
the curved pathways and the grass 
carpet of the lower terrace planted at 
each corner with standard catalpas, 
while two specimen retinosporas mark 
the entrance to the garden. 
The garden proper is enclosed by a 
dense barberry hedge and consists of 
two distinct rooms, and the vista is 
framed at the farther end by a beautiful 
pergola, also designed by Mr. Duncan. 
The pergola is essentially classic in feel¬ 
ing and is composed of a central cov¬ 
ered arcade with side wings of open 
colonnades of six columns each. A low 
parapet wall, with open latticework, 
partially screens the wings at the back 
and imparts a feeling of privacy and 
definite boundary line to the garden 
picture. A broad gravel path broken 
by three circles, the central one en¬ 
closing a fountain, leads through the 
perennial garden into the rose garden, 
ending in the cool shadows of the per¬ 
gola. From the latter one gets an in¬ 
timate view of the circular rose garden 
bordered by ribbons of mauve violas. 
The flower beds and borders were 
designed by Miss Beatrice Dell of 
Greenwich, Conn. The wide perennial 
borders follow the outline of the rect¬ 
angular room and are filled with masses 
of hardy flowers. In early summer 
huge groupings of blue flowers pre¬ 
dominate, such as Delphinium bella¬ 
donna and Anchusa italica, contrasted 
with Madonna lilies, foxgloves and 
white phlox Miss Lingard. Still later 
the yellows and browns of the heleni- 
ums and tiger lilies add a glow of 
autumn warmth and splendor. All 
through the season plants that have 
finished flowering are cut down and the 
bare spaces filled in. The blue flowers 
are replaced by long-blooming blue sal¬ 
vias and the handsome blue caryopteris, 
both treated as annuals. 
The annual beds along the central 
garden path are the first to bloom in 
spring and are among the last to hold 
out against Jack Frost. They gladden 
the heart in May with their brave 
showing of Darwin tulips and later are 
formally bedded out in soft colors with 
heliotrope and blue ageratums con¬ 
trasted with pink snapdragons and Rosy 
Morn petunias. 
In marked contrast to this beautiful 
formal garden is the bit of woodland 
and wild garden that is connected with 
it by a winding path leading off at 
right angles from the pergola. Here a 
natural rocky knoll has been trans¬ 
formed into a veritable rock garden 
filled with all kinds of creeping plants. 
Behind this lie the extensive green¬ 
houses, and the rest of the property of 
some fifty acres is run as a farm to 
supply the many demands of a hos¬ 
pitable home. 
Lilian C. Alderson. 
The fountain and pool which are below the terrace balustrade harmonize 
with the style of the house. John M. Duncan, architect 
