House and Garden 
green glazes in 
the shape of Ital¬ 
ian wine jars give 
color and dignity 
to the enclosure 
of the pool. 
Huge jars by Ri- 
chetti of Pruneta 
mark the walk 
upon the raised 
terrace at the end 
of the garden; 
but these and the 
two white marble 
statues of female 
figures there are 
so placed that 
they shall not 
rob a beautiful 
Roman fountain 
of its effect as a 
final point of 
richness and dig¬ 
nity in the view 
across the garden. 
The planting 
of so architec¬ 
tural a garden as 
this must be re¬ 
strained in order to play a secondary role ; 
but it is none the less a subject of the great¬ 
est care and study. The planting of the 
long borders is indicated upon the plan 
shown here, while those at each end contain 
roses and geraniums. The large hedges are 
of California privet; the small ones of dwarf 
box; the walls are covered with wistaria, 
Virginia creeper, rambler roses, trumpet vine, 
clematis and English ivy. Against the low 
wall of the garden retaining the house lawn 
are espaliered French peach trees. 
The barn has been developed in the way 
pointed by the farm architec¬ 
ture of the eastern Pennsylvania 
counties, the rude 
structural ele¬ 
ments having 
been retained. 
These are natu¬ 
rally found at 
best in the sub¬ 
structure, where 
the picturesque¬ 
ness of white¬ 
washed stone¬ 
work has been 
demonstrated. 
But it is the su¬ 
perstructures of 
barns that offer 
rare opportunities 
to architects who 
are appreciative 
of their material 
and, being so, 
are temperate of 
its treatment. 
Though our pho¬ 
tographs do not 
show that portion 
of the barn at 
“Fairacres” 
where the archi¬ 
tect has spent a restrained fancy upon 
pigeon lofts, outside stairways and the plac¬ 
ing of windows, they do show what can be 
done to make a barn gable a thing of 
beauty. Upon starting to build the garden 
few would have supposed that an end of a 
barn, obtruding above a level that did not 
belong to it, could have grown into one of 
the most charming features of the finished 
garden; but the doubt is now answered 
by the effect of the trellises supporting, 
upon a shingled wall, wistaria and clematis, 
amid which a trumpet vine clings to what¬ 
ever it can reach by its deter¬ 
mined feet. 
A GABLE OF THE BARN 
Face of the Sun-dial at “Fairacres " 
