House & Garden 
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THE GARDEN on 
the ESTATE of 
W. U. PARSONS, 
Esq. 
ARDSLEY-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. 
A. F. BRINCKERHOFF 
Landscape Architect 
From beneath a large 
maple tree near the street 
entrance one looks across an 
unbroken stretch of turf to 
the terrace, flanked with 
evergreens and a magnifi¬ 
cent rhododendron 
The entrance to the turf 
garden is guarded by two 
Lombardy poplars and 
arched with a rose trellis 
over which climb Dorothy 
Perkins bushes. Flowering 
shrubs extend on either 
hand 
Abundant variety of line 
and mass is in the shrub¬ 
bery plantings which sur¬ 
round the house. The type 
of architecture calls for a 
certain informality which 
is well under control 
In the center of the little 
grass-plot garden with its 
shrub walls stands a pe¬ 
destal urn with just enough 
planting in the bowl to 
soften and embellish its 
formal lines 
