The Garden at “Fair acres ” 
A PARTERRE WALLED WITH PRIVET 
ing the parterres one may mount to a ter¬ 
race which forms a terminal feature ol the 
garden and whose shape is that ol half an 
octagon. Though above the parterres, this 
terrace is slightly below the level of the 
house lawn, a difference which may have 
been caused by the expense of grading, for 
the ground outside of this end of the garden 
falls rapidly away. A pleasant glimpse of 
the fields may be had from over the hedges 
which are here the boundary of the design. 
At one side of the formal garden is situ¬ 
ated a wild garden, the work and delight of 
the mistress of “ Fairacres.” Its gaiety of 
color shines through the arbor which sepa¬ 
rates it from the 
rectilinear space we 
have been viewing; 
and stepping now 
upon turf walks, 
the visitor is soon 
lost to sight amid 
high masses of 
shrubbery and 
bloom interspersed 
FAIRACRES 
with pear and other fruit trees. Hot-houses 
flank this wild garden upon two sides. Be¬ 
yond these there is no architecture to be seen 
save a fragment of an old column supporting 
a sun-dial. However beautiful in reality 
such a garden may be, he who looks for pic¬ 
tures not of a purely horticultural character 
must ever turn to architectural surroundings 
to obtain picturesque compositions. 
Thus we retrace our steps to the formal 
garden and find vistas through arbors await¬ 
ing us, stone garden houses, such as the old 
English gardeners termed gazebos or hahas, 
vine-clad balustrades and, best of all, the pool 
on whose refreshing surface the light stream 
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STRUCTURAL DETAILS OF THE ROSE ARBORS 
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