March, 1923 
One of the entrance paths to the 
house was laid between two rows of 
great elms, a feature of the place 
which gives it at once an air of age 
that could otherwise have been at¬ 
tained only in time or at the con¬ 
siderable expense of big tree moving 
One of the most delightful parts of 
the gardens is the path which leads 
off from the garden between hedges of 
formally clipped hemlocks. After the 
color and brilliance of the herbaceous 
borders it is a fine note of simplicity. 
Ellen Shipman, landscape architect 
A broad flight of low stone steps, on which hydrangeas in tubs are 
effectively placed, separates the house terrace from the lawn. Mr. 
Greenleaf, the landscape architect of part of these grounds and gardens, 
is the designer of some of the largest estates in the country, and the 
winner, two years ago, of the Architectural League medal for excellence 
in landscape architecture. The subsequent splendid work of Miss Ship- 
man on the same estate is being shown at the current exhibition of the 
Architectural League of A ‘ew York 
