House and Garden 
tecture of the drawing-board and too little 
of that of building. Gardens such as those 
of “ Faulkner Farm,” Massachusetts, and 
“ Glen Elsinore,” Connecticut, or “ Cedar 
Court,” New Jersey, are arrangements of 
temples to make saloons and parlors. They 
show the skill of elegant and accomplished 
architects, but are no growth of garden art, 
but rather apologies tor its absence. 
Still more artificial and spectacular are the 
great “ramps” of “ Biltmore,” North Car¬ 
olina, the “ forecourts ” of “ Bellefontaine,” 
Massachusetts and a garden at “ Cold Spring 
Harbor,” New York, and the balustraded 
fountain of a garden at Beverly, Massachu¬ 
setts. H owever learned the reproductions, 
and skillful the adaptation of the Greek peri¬ 
style, of the Roman circus or bath to the 
purposes of an American pleasaunce, there is 
offence in the misapplication of form whose 
origin came from such a different use. These 
were the proportions and these the details of 
a great civic architecture, and to use them in 
petto for private luxury is a bathos. Indeed 
they never lose the associations of their ancient 
fame, and gardens such as the above can in 
modern days only suggest the international 
exhibition, not to say the cemetery of a city. 
I have preferred accordingly to take as 
typical of the American garden the more 
moderate architectural display, which marks 
the gardens 1 have put in my list. Perhaps 
in “ Woodlea,” Scarborough, and Mr. Stan¬ 
ford White’s garden at St. James the infec¬ 
tion of Italian mimicry has been caught, yet 
the unreal features do not blunt the feeling 
of true descent of the American garden from 
the older Colonial traditions,— traditions 
which sprung from the English seventeenth 
century and developed in America on lines of 
their own. The old Colonial gardens such 
as those of Nantucket, “ Hampton,” Mary¬ 
land, and Mount Vernon, Virginia, were not 
exactly in the contemporary English style 
but show the genesis of new ideas. And I 
feel there is nothing but praise for the order 
and comely symmetry which on this tradi¬ 
tional pattern appear in gardens like “ The 
Briars,” “ Aysgarth,” and the two gardens at 
Cornish which I have named on my list. 
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