House and Garden 
PLAN OF THE GARDEN 
“FAIRACRES” 
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Situated apart from the house, the garden 
is a work of art whose beauty is entirely its 
own and not reflected by that of its sur¬ 
roundings nor dependent upon anything 
outside of its four walls. It was laid out in 
1897 and planted immediately afterward. It 
lies so far above its surroundings that no 
trees rise above it affording a background ; 
and similarly the plants within the garden 
have been taught by artifice to rise above 
their fellows without to a new level of 
importance, to assume dignified manners 
of growth and to put aside the habits of 
their former wild oblivion. The garden 
is the crowning ornament to the place and 
serves also to tie together into one group 
such minor buildings as the barn and 
greenhouses. Enclosed only by low stone 
walls, its splendor is that of an open plateau 
without an interruption to its unity or any 
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