House and Garden 
the flower garden and turn¬ 
ing to a foot entrance to the 
property. Carriages are to 
reach the house by means of 
a main entrance opening from 
the road directly upon a fore¬ 
court. Service teams will use 
a secondary entrance and 
court farther to the west. 
The drive is a private thor¬ 
oughfare controlled jointly 
by the owner of “ Grape 
House ” and one of his 
neighbors. The road on the 
east is the only public thor¬ 
oughfare near by. 
the section of hedge supported by planks Northwestward of the main 
walk through the garden is 
been far different from that of gardens of a 
hundred years ago. Having lately passed 
into the possession of Mr. Frederick W. 
Taylor, who is transforming the place into 
a generous suburban home, the magnificent 
old box bushes, instead of being swept aside 
to make way for an entirely modern creation, 
have been preserved and rearranged. The 
new owner boldly determined to transplant 
the box, applying it to a new design of 
walks and parterres. This was fraught with 
difficulties deemed insuperable by those who 
hold to the belief that box cannot be trans¬ 
planted. But the moving of 
the bushes was not the trans¬ 
planting of bushes only, but 
of bushes and soil without 
their being separated. Mes¬ 
srs. Olmsted Brothers were 
invited to prepare a plan. 
The position of the railway 
station, a hundred yards dis¬ 
tant, caused the flower garden 
to be considered a thorough¬ 
fare in going afoot to the 
train, rather than reserved as 
the secluded spot our ances¬ 
tors made it for their enjoy¬ 
ment in solitude and at leis¬ 
ure. The new plan, then, 
provided, as our illustration 
shows, a straight walk leading 
directly from the porte co- 
chere of the house northeast¬ 
ward to the opposite end of forcing iron plates under the roots 
a semicircular hedge, behind which will 
be planted tall conifers with the object of 
screening the greenhouses. On the other 
side of the walk are two shield-shaped par¬ 
terres, between the outer edges of which is 
a small sunken enclosure providing seclu¬ 
sion where the mistress of the new garden 
may enjoy quiet hours, perhaps in watching 
the issue of her horticultural experiments. 
The parterres have been broadly laid out so 
that their size will be in scale with the large 
hedges which are to enclose them. This 
idea has apparently been departed from in 
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