House and Garden 
face so as to form a dense wall-like hedge. 
The east side is enclosed by a high trellis 
covered with honeysuckle, morning-glories 
and other climbing plants. Wide borders 
along the house and walls, which shut off 
the kitchen court on the east and the terrace 
garden on the west, are planted with lilacs 
for the spring and hydrangea paniculata for 
the autumn blooming, and contain hardy 
herbaceous and annual flowers as a fore¬ 
ground. Trumpet creeper, ampelopsis, and 
English ivy already soften the bareness of 
the rough-cast walls. 
The terrace garden on the west of the 
house is reached by a gate in the wall, 
and the path which enters skirts a small 
grass-plot and runs clear across to a stair¬ 
way leading from the terrace down to the 
parterre. Flower borders surround this 
garden under the wall on the north and 
west sides, and it is bounded on the south 
by the terrace with its pergola running east 
and west. This terrace grew naturally out 
of the exigencies of the ground, which slopes 
sharply southward; and the house being 
founded on the solid rock, a considerable 
amount of material resulting from the neces¬ 
sary blasting for the cellar had to be dis¬ 
posed of. 
In the wall opposite a door from the 
dining-room is a bay with a seat. This 
being arbored affords an excuse for car¬ 
rying the pergola along part of the west 
side of the garden, adding greatly to its 
beauty and seclusion. At the west end of 
the terrace walk the wall is thrown out into 
a circular bastion, and the pergolas meet 
here and form a tea-house canopied with 
vine, clematis, trumpet-creeper and wistaria. 
The latter is trained up from the garden 
below some nine or ten feet, and the pergola 
is to be entirely roofed with it; but at each of 
the inner posts on the terrace lawn itself is 
planted a rose, clematis, jasmine or other 
more delicate creeper for the sake of variety. 
In the grass-plot opposite the center of 
the house is a small fountain. The eastern 
end of the terrace is shaded by a large elm 
and a tulip tree which were on the place 
when the house was built and played an 
important part in fixing the exact position 
of the building. The steps at each end of 
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