Garden Portraits 
ANOTHER PERGOLA AT WESTWICK PARK 
which characterize Miss Carlisle’s work, are lelt 
strongly in her “sketches” of interiors. 1 hough 
she insists they are but sketches, the real feeling of 
the room portrayed is in them. 
It is Miss Carlisle’s intention to return to America 
next year. She will then visit Southern California 
to make some portraits of particularly beautiful 
gardens there. It is hoped that she will at that time 
arrange an exhibit here of her pictures of gardens, 
both American and English, together with her “ bits” 
of interiors from both sides of the water. A com¬ 
parison of these would be interesting, and the oppor¬ 
tunity for the public to view her work in this un¬ 
usual line will be thoroughly appreciated. 
Landscape gardening as exploited in some of the 
magnificent estates in this country, has reached a 
point akin to perfection; all that is best which the 
old world has to offer has been drawn upon and 
adapted to the new world settings. The stately 
French Renaissance, the beautiful Italian and the 
formal English garden, while suited to the needs of 
these great places, cannot be utilized in simpler 
effects, and it is in the garden of the small house that 
we now work for improvement; gradually this is 
taking shape, and each year shows a decided advance 
along these lines. A pleasing grouping of color, a 
certain formal dignity of plan is possible wherever 
there is ground enough to be designated “garden ” 
A sequestered, high walled bit of ground at the 
rear of a city house can become an enticing green 
retreat. Vines trained against the wall, with stock 
and gillyflower to blossom in the single central bit. 
A wall fountain set in one corner to fill the air with 
the cooling splash of its tiny stream, and also add to 
the pictorial effect; a rough stone seat and a low 
tea table to complete this. I his is possible for it has 
been done, and in a garden 12x14 feet in size. 
The woman who designed this has since planned 
many such,—many on much more elaborate lines, 
her gardens having become celebrated in the old- 
fashioned city where she lives. I'hey have been 
photographed and reproduced in many magazines, 
but as yet no color portrait has been made from any 
one of them. 
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