House £s? Garden 
seventy-five feet in width and the depth of 
four feet six inches affords accommodation 
tor a profusion of water lilies and other 
aquatic plants. 
Most of the 
lilies are grown 
in boxes, hut 
the pond at the 
edges is only 
from eighteen 
to twenty-four 
inches in depth, 
and here are 
grown the hardy 
lilies. The 
pond holds 
some magnifi¬ 
cent specimens 
of the Victoria 
regia. The 
largest leaf 
grown on the 
estate measured 
five feet nine 
inches in diameter and easily supported a 
boy eight years of age, with only a thin 
board to distribute his weight evenly over 
the leaf. Surrounding the water garden is a 
sub-tropical garden or border in which more 
than forty varieties of plants appear. 
Simplicity of design characterizes both 
entrances to Twin Oaks. On the south 
where the private roadway leads from Wood- 
ley Lane at a point just opposite Beauvoir, 
the country-seat of Admiral Dewey, the 
entrance is marked by two stone pillars, 
while the drive is flanked on either side by 
a line of evergreens and Norway maples. 
At the north entrance, which is situated in a 
ravine, there are massive walls of rough stone, 
covered with the many-flowered Japanese 
rose. The trees constitute one of the chief 
glories of the 
estate. The 
collection of 
Japanese ever¬ 
greens is one 
of the finest 
and most com¬ 
plete extant, and 
there is also an 
especially credi¬ 
table representa¬ 
tion of Holland 
evergreens. 
The residence 
at Twin ()aks is 
a large structure 
the architecture 
of which is a 
modification of 
the Colonial 
style. On the 
southern front is a commodious sun parlor 
and directly before the house stand the two 
immense oak trees from which the estate 
takes its name. The greater part of the 
interior of the house, including the great 
hall is furnished in oak, but the library and 
dining room are in cherry. The house is 
situated on a considerable elevation with a 
broad expanse of lawn in front and a wooded 
ravine in the rear. The sun parlor and in 
fact every window in the southern exposure 
commands a splendid view of the entire city 
of Washington, the Potomac River and the 
blue hills of Virginia, beyond. 
Waidon Fawcett. 
ARCH COVERED WITH “THE MEMORIAE ROSE ” 
Rosa JVtchuraiana 
