The House and Garden of Mr. Charles A. Platt 
house. The sides of the hill are planted 
with masses of hardy shrubbery. On the 
visitor’s left and on the same level with the 
main walk, is an extension of the garden re¬ 
cently planted and not shown in the illustra¬ 
tions. Further along the first pathway is the 
house on the right, and on the left, but on a 
much lower level, the main garden. Between 
the house and the walk is an apple tree, the 
remnant of a former orchard. The smaller 
paths leading to the entrances of the house 
LATERAL PATHWAY 
and the piazza are marked by stone steps 
and a pair of carefully trimmed spirea bushes. 
Before descending to the garden the visitor 
would be tempted to linger a while in front 
of the piazza—a structure which has been 
designed not in relation to the house itself, 
but rather as the crowning feature of the 
lateral pathway leading down through the 
several levels of the garden. The garden is 
not, however, the only thing worth seeing 
from the piazza. The rich and tender beauty 
of the whole valley lies stretched out before 
the observer. Further to the west and not 
disclosed by the illustrations the highest 
point of Mount Ascutney rises a little above 
a grove of pines, and the nearer and smaller 
mass of Mount Dingleton on the southeast 
composes admirably both as to distance and 
height with the rest of the landscape. A 
stretch of green turf lies between the house 
and the grove, and if the visitor should walk 
across this lawn, and through the grove, he 
LONGITUDINAL PATHWAY 
would come out upon the brow of the hill, 
from which point a full view of Mount 
Ascutney could be obtained. 
But we will suppose instead that he crosses 
the path and descends the steps into the main 
garden. This consists of four rectangular 
beds, bounded by paths, which in turn are 
enclosed by narrow beds skirting the outer 
lines of the garden. With the exception of 
a few hollyhocks the principal beds are filled 
entirely with hardy perennial flowers, and they 
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