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House & Garden 
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The Small Formal House 
(Continued from page 49) 
heavily-detailed plasterwork, all quite 
out of keeping with the spirit of the 
house. 
And now a word about the plan of 
the house and the principles embodied. 
The 18th Century, especially in its lat¬ 
ter half, was a period when the whole 
Anglo-Saxon race seemed to be imbued 
with a sense of graceful line and just 
proportion. Witness even the simple 
furniture made by country cabinet¬ 
makers, and the houses wholly designed 
and built by country carpenters, both 
in England and America. It was a 
period when domestic life in all its 
several manifestations was distinguished 
by poise and balance and by a very 
practical sanity of judgment coupled 
with a due appreciation of all the small 
refinements that count. And the houses, 
in their fabric and plan, afforded a 
visible and enduring testimony to the 
mode of life lived within their walls. 
They were the shells unmistakably pro¬ 
claiming the domestic and social ideals 
that were maintained by the occupants. 
In that age of oftentimes small and 
finished elegancies it was possible for a 
small family to live elegantly a com¬ 
plete and self-contained life in a small 
house that truly reflected the habits of 
its inmates. Such an house was Bram¬ 
ble Haw—sufficient kitchens, scullery, 
pantry and other offices in the well- 
lighted basement; on the ground floor 
a spacious hall and staircase, a conveni¬ 
ent library, a drawing room and a din¬ 
ing room of comfortable dimensions; on 
the upper floors the bed chambers; in 
all, a few good rooms, adequate in size 
and number for the amenities of polite 
life, and all of them fully used. Herein 
lies its lesson and its value for us. 
Bramble Haw is a standing protest 
against neglige architecture and the fal¬ 
lacy that smallness connotes a certain 
inevitable lack of distinction in plan and 
aspect, or that it is only in large houses 
that the legitimate elegancies of life can 
be duly observed. 
The Rectangular Lot 
(Continued from page 33) 
shrubs of a semi-wild character -— red 
cedars, flowering apples, red-twigged 
dogwood and wild roses. Placed as a 
focal point, a table and chairs of old 
hickory furniture overlook the softly 
modulated lawn surrounded by a frame 
of flowers in bold masses carefully bal¬ 
anced as to effect. These are early tu¬ 
lips, tall Darwins, oriental poppies, iris, 
peonies, foxgloves, larkspur, Japanese 
iris, phlox, and hardy asters. The nar¬ 
row encircling walks of stepping stones 
have planted in their interstices forget- 
me-nots, arabis and dwarf pinks (Dian- 
thus deltoides) instead of the usual 
untidy grass. 
The difficulty in developing this de¬ 
sign is in having it look as informal as 
intended, because of the inveterate ten¬ 
dency of the handy man to shear all 
grass edges to a hard line. It will no 
doubt succeed better if given the per¬ 
sonal attention of the owners. 
The front is planted with a few shrubs 
against the house—arborvitae, spiraea, 
and cotoneaster. The street hedge is 
of unclipped barberry, its straight lines 
relieved by flowering dogwood trees. 
In the rear is a drying yard and space 
for raspberries, strawberries, and a small 
hotbed. Two years ago, this place 
actually cost around $500, including all 
grading, topsoil, manure, plants and 
labor,—a reasonable figure for the time. 
The fifth house belonged to a man 
with an interesting idea. He lived in 
a suburb of New York in a subdivision 
of small lots (42' x 85') as yet but lit¬ 
tle built upon. First he annexed the 
adjoining property (which incidentally 
was several feet lower) and developed 
it as a spring garden of flowering crabs 
and cherries, lilac, red-bud, and for- 
sythia. Then with his relatives he 
bought another lot which was devel¬ 
oped into a flower garden equally ac¬ 
cessible to the three families. The cross 
entrances are so planned as to give 
access to the adjoining lots. The main 
walk, which leads from the spring gar¬ 
den, is terminated by a stone platform 
flanked by seats and arching dogwood 
trees. From this focal point, which 
commands a wide view of the Hudson, 
a shallow flight of steps leads down to 
an oval turf panel, where evergreens 
and berried shrubs make a winter gar¬ 
den. A stone wall with artistic wrought 
iron gate separates the garden from the 
street, yet does not cut off the view. 
From $1000 to $2000 should cover the 
cost of plants and accessories- for the 
entire scheme. Shared by three families, 
this does not seem so great when it is 
considered that one man can be the 
joint caretaker. 
An English Garden in Spring 
(Continued from page 34) 
patch or two amid the rubbish heaps, 
and some evidence still remained of a 
farmer’s wife who had liked her few 
flowers but had not been able to cope 
with the difficulties of the situation. 
Here, again, care was taken not to lessen 
the value of the picturesque but plain 
old building by detailed architectural ef¬ 
fect. Terraces were laid out on the 
southern slope, but they were walled 
simply and with the local limestone. 
A good deal of pavement was used, and 
broad grass-ways, edged with borders 
and backed by yew hedges, were con¬ 
trived. The steeper slope to the west, 
was made into a rock garden leading 
down to old fish ponds, where a good 
deal of water gardening was introduced. 
All this was taken out of a field and 
orchard, the trees of which were re¬ 
tained, and a matured effect was almost 
at once produced. The climate and the 
soil are good, and the whole of the 
gardens, as the illustrations will show, 
are rich in floral effect. The simple, 
old-fashioned aspect of the English 
country home of the past that had its 
farmery attached and that drew no 
hard-and-fast division between its flow¬ 
er and vegetable gardens, has been 
sought for and obtained. 
"The title of the house has descended 
from the days of the episcopal lords 
marchers, and it implies a certain 
grandeur in no way reflected by the 
place as it is today. It aims at being 
a quiet home where the simple life may 
be led.” 
We have not, it is true, the rich back¬ 
grounds in buildings, for such garden 
pictures as these, but ours is a climate 
unsurpassed for spring gardening,— 
subjects in untold variety, not only our 
fine native flora, but plants, shrubs and 
trees from the round world itself, and 
we may, we do have, spring pictures 
unsurpassed. Such delicious disposings 
(Continued on page 60) 
