The Rebuilding of an Old Garden 
and the visitor 
during this hot 
weather notices 
an awning 
placed tempo¬ 
rarily above a 
single bush, 
cherished on 
account of its 
s u r p a s s i n g 
beauty and the 
conspicuous 
part it is to play 
in the new de¬ 
sign. It has 
been decided 
not to clip the 
hedges, but to 
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preserve the natural wavy outline the bushes 
have assumed during their years of unham¬ 
pered growth. The tew gaps which can be 
found in the newly set hedges underneath 
the profile of foliage are to be filled with 
new plants, and an even appearance of the 
sides cultivated by spreading apart a branch 
of leaves and holding it in that position by 
wire attached to the ground until new leafage 
fills the space Nevertheless it will be im¬ 
possible to obtain here the evenness which 
young hedges may have, nor is it desirable 
to do so when more graceful and sympa¬ 
thetic than their neighbors of to-day are these 
grand old bushes of a hundred years ago. 
Privet and lilac have been used for new 
hedges which have been required to com¬ 
plete outlying portions of the garden, and 
the place will offer a permanent compari- 
THE PLAN OF THE NEW GARDEN 
Prepared by Messrs. Olmsted Brothers 
has fixed 
ture 
and 
son of the three 
materials, the 
diversity of 
color and tex¬ 
ture. Fortu¬ 
nately for the 
new garden, its 
designers re- 
frained from the 
use of small 
features and 
subdivisions, 
which would 
have indeed 
appeared incon¬ 
sequential be¬ 
side boundaries 
whose size na- 
which no amount of 
reduce. Neither has 
A 
pruning can now 
architectural ornament been introduced, 
sun-dial is the only artificial object. 
The whole work— tour-de-force as it may 
seem—has been devised to utilize and dis¬ 
play the old box which is the true and dis¬ 
tinguishing feature of the garden. 
The extensive task now going on at 
“ Grape House ” is, in fine, a successful 
effort to obtain what it has heretofore been 
supposed age alone can give—a modern gar¬ 
den of mature box. The expense of the 
undertaking—the cost of whose apparatus 
alone was considerably more than two thou¬ 
sand dollars—will be in future years a small 
consideration compared with the enjoyment 
of redolent banks of bushes which two gen¬ 
erations have planted. 
The Old Barn at “ Grape House" 
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