House & Garden 
of. The supply of fruit is added to by some 
trees raised on the wall of the mill, both on 
the garden and the yard side. 
It is often difficult to say what it is 
that gives to such simple spots the charms 
which they undoubtedly possess. The arch¬ 
itecture is of the simplest, there is no orna¬ 
ment, and no attempt at anything beyond 
strict utilitarianism. The garden is neither a 
bit of formal planting, nor yet is it without 
evidence of thought and care. In house and 
grounds alike it is the frank straightforward 
solving of practical problems which gives to 
the whole a kind of solid honesty—rather an 
English trait—and which is in itself charming. 
Such a spot makes one feel afresh the truth 
ot the familiar old lines : 
“ The daily round, the common task, 
Will furnish all we ought to ask.” 
In the face of such things one cannot but 
think that architects would build better if 
they were content to seek only to satisfy the 
common needs of everyday life. 
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