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While planning to build the owner 
should always visualize his property as 
a completed whole and make his plans 
accordingly. The growth of shrubbery 
will be much slower than the actual 
time required for building the house 
and he may, if his purse permits, trans¬ 
plant large specimens to get immediate 
effects. Usually, however, he had bet¬ 
ter buy small shrubs, space them suffi¬ 
ciently and let Nature take her own 
good time in bringing a robust growth 
One of the pleasant features 
of the house was the entrance 
gate, with its effective grill. 
The architect had adapted an 
English cottage style and 
planned to let the planting 
play the same role here that it 
does in English cottages. Both 
woodwork and plaster have 
taken on a desirable mellow¬ 
ness and afford a background 
for the barberry hedge along 
the path and the other plant¬ 
ing massed around the foun¬ 
dations. Bloodgood Tuttle 
was the architect 
SHRUBBERY 
WILL DO 
A Before-and-After Study 
for the New House 
In February, 1918, under the title of 
“An Architectural Epigram”, House & 
Garden published this residence, which 
is at Pelham, N. Y. The house had 
just been completed and consequently 
was treated as an unusual gesture in 
small house architecture. Since that, 
time the shrubbery has been planted 
and allowed three years’ growth. 
Whereas the house originally stood 
barren, it is now properly clothed and 
fits its site admirably. In fact, the 
shrubbery made the site 
Gillies 
