One Source of Color Values 
service wing till it connects with the water-tower and 
gateway. There is scarcely an enrichment, mould¬ 
ing or carving anywhere, inside or out. Things 
generally centre and there is a well-defined philos¬ 
ophy about it all. T. he house being the essential 
adjunct to a beautiful garden—a shelter for the 
family, nothing more, ample, but modest, the 
attitude of a man of refinement—a painter, a poet in 
the face of the beauties of nature, grappling with the 
plan on the “site” instead of in the drawing office. 
The lofty trees of the native woods come close up 
to the house, half burying it, so that only the circle 
frontage can be seen, the greater part so covered 
with creepers as to conceal all but the glass of the 
windows. The creepers frame the openings, giving 
a charm and graceful unity to everything. They 
are great travellers, verily—tramps. They go under¬ 
ground, across door-heads, over cornices, stopping up 
gutters, filling odd corners, doing no end of mischief, 
far more than the gardeners enjoy. Yet who would 
check them, the truants. What harmonizers! What 
decorative artists! By an ingenious arrangement. 
piers of stone, cemented and whitewashed like the 
arcade at the northern end, are built at regular 
intervals' with beams, level with the top of the 
windows, connecting, the tramp creepers doing 
the rest. Can architectural embellishment, pediment 
or cornice surpass the fringe of living glory presented 
by the creepers Always in style; exempt from even 
the dictation of Dame Fashion! Always mellowing, 
softening, harmonizing whithersoever they go. 
The centre of the Circle is a pool of clear water, 
hedged in with box, some fifty years old, adjusted 
and replanted to fit the Circle, and—irises. And 
standing erect and bold, a Fountain. It is of 
mosaic, delicate and earnest in its simplicity, toning 
in with the color of things. As the wind ruffles the 
surface of the pool, the reflections of house, tree-tops, 
terrace and flowers dance to this, the one glad joy- 
song of skilled craftsmanship in a beautiful chorus, 
the benediction of the flowers. 
The terraces are dry wall-gardens, built with a 
slope to retain the bank of earth, and give lodgment 
and protection for plants, ferns, cacti that prefer 
THE TOWER AND COURT FROM THE UPPER WINDOWS 
