House and Garden 
THE OLD FASHIONED GARDEN 
to have a view of the ocean or perhaps the 
mouth of a broad river where boats are con¬ 
stantly plying back and forth and splendid 
sand dunes and meadows with their ever 
changing colors on the opposite shore, you 
will have a picture which no one can spoil, 
and of which you will never tire. 
The entire lower storey of the house is sur¬ 
rounded by a broad band of woodbine on the 
piazza side, 
growing on a 
frame built out 
from the pi¬ 
azza roof and 
falling down 
some three or 
four feet so as 
to screen the 
piazza from 
the glare of 
the sun. Huge 
clumps of hy¬ 
drangea, 
which grow so 
well at the sea¬ 
shore as to be 
hardy in some 
localities and 
require but little care, have been placed be¬ 
side the steps, and a large bed of garden 
phlox, a perennial which almost grows by 
itself and is so beautiful in bloom, fills the 
center of a circular drive. A narrow path 
leads through the lawn down to the boat 
landing, and is bordered on each side by two 
long, narrow beds filled with annuals, some 
of which are always in bloom, and you are 
repaid there 
each morning 
by fi n di ng 
s o m e t h i n g 
new. 
Another 
narrow path 
leads past the 
billiard house, 
down some 
stone steps, 
and into what 
was, until this 
year, the re¬ 
mains ofan old 
fish wharf, but 
is now a beau- 
tiful garden. 
The old 
THE DINING ROOM 
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