House Garden 
flowers. As Twin Oaks is designed for 
practically continuous occupancy from April 
to December and the intensity of the sun’s 
rays in the southern clime renders the sight 
of extensive gravel roadways painful to the 
eyes, this material has been utilized only on 
the two main drives. All the other aven¬ 
ues of communication on the estate are turf 
drives. These manifest a tendency to appear 
slightly worn at some seasons of the year; 
but all things considered, preserve their ap¬ 
pearance surprisingly well. Likewise grass 
paths take the place of all other forms of 
walks on the estate. 
A charming feature of the estate is the 
rose arbor which affords a connecting avenue 
between the rose garden (containing two 
hundred varieties of the flowers) and the 
conservatories. The arbor is made up of 
twelve double arches of rustic construction 
covered with such varieties as the Crimson 
Rambler, Memorial, Baltimore Belle and 
Queen ot the Prairies. The conservatories 
to which access is gained through this avenue 
and which are located several hundred feet 
from the residence comprise about fifteen 
thousand square feet of glass. The group 
of buildings includes rose, carnation and 
palm houses, a grapery and violet pits, but 
no definite scheme of arrangement has been 
adhered to. 
At the opposite side of the estate is a sim¬ 
ple pergola, consisting of a series of arches 
designed to afford a shaded path to the sub¬ 
tropical garden and lily-pond. Constituting 
the central part of the pergola is a Japanese 
rustic house, covered with Japanese wisteria. 
Near at hand is a summer-house of rustic 
cedar covered with crimson ramblers. The 
water garden is ninety-five feet in length and 
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