Stratford Lodge 
THE UPPER PERGOLA FROM BELOW 
Southern Italy. But beauty has a way of 
setting reason at nought; and few can deny 
that beauty has already taken up her dwelling 
place in the garden at Stratford Lodge. And 
it she has done this even before the vines have 
climbed up to their trellises, how charming a 
place will the garden be when it has gained 
STRATFORD LODGE 
that wealth of quiet interest that an old garden 
has ! When those who see it will, because of 
its hoarded memories, look upon it as “ a sort 
ot repository ot old secrets,” and will “ feel 
instinctively that the place has been warmed 
by the sunshine of humanity, and watered 
from the secret springs of joy and sorrow.” 
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