House <y Garden 
lounging in the study. The sounds of birds 
and insects lull to sleep whoever throws him¬ 
self on one of the divans under the windows. 
An arbor bearing actinidia, Virginia creeper 
and wild grape screens the window from the 
afternoon sun, and fresh breezes enter the 
room from the open north. A portfolio of 
views of the place, taken at different periods 
in its history, is a part of the library. There are 
the large pictures 
looking toward 
the house from 
the lily-pool and 
another in the 
midst of the gar¬ 
den, both taken in 
i 898, three years 
after the first 
planting; then 
follow that of a 
girl resting on the 
parapet beyond 
the pool, taken a 
year later, and the 
snow scene taken 
in November, 
1899. Future 
guests may now find other views photographed 
for this article in September, 1901. These show 
the garden after a growth of six years. The 
process of change is still going on ; for the one 
who is ever watchful of the garden’s variations 
has new schemes for transplanting some of 
the flowers or casting out certain others. 
This transformation is already under way. 
The new greenhouse is next inspected and 
details of construction are discussed. A cedar 
tank is being installed for additional water 
supply and space for a small aviary has been 
marked out. A walk beyond the greenhouse 
toward the top of the hill affords a new im¬ 
pression of the entire arrangement of the place 
and reveals the reason in its name. We see 
the house below us, set upon the north side 
of the hill, and the garden in a level space 
made between the 
house and the 
ground sloping 
rapidly toward it. 
Thanks to a 
custom at North- 
cot e—a nother 
outdoor meal 
on the porch is 
enjoyed at sup¬ 
per-time. As the 
daylight fails, the 
valley below 
would be but a 
memory were it 
not for the lights 
which twinkle 
from the distant 
farm-houses. Often the cool air of the hills, 
even in summer, requires an open fire in the 
study, whither the company repair for reading 
or music. The hours of the household are 
country hours and bedtime comes early. 
Guests for the night are guided to cheerful, 
simply furnished rooms by old-fashioned 
English candlesticks,—and the bracing air 
inhaled all day brings complete rest. 
THE HILLSIDE SNOW-BOUND 
November, l8qg 
THE PARAPET AT THE WEST 
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