A Seashore Home 
A PRINCIPAL BEDROOM 
stone wharf was utilized just as 
it was, the paths laid out and 
filled with gravel and the beds 
filled with good rich loam. 
Vines were started which will, 
in time, cover the pergola, 
trellises, and the old wall. 
This garden is full of delight¬ 
ful, old-fashioned flowers— 
hollyhocks, honeysuckles, 
bachelor’s buttons, poppies, 
asters and nasturtiums; and if 
you have never seen flowers 
grow at the seashore you will 
be surprised to see how much 
larger the blossoms are and 
how much more brilliant in 
color they are than when 
grown in the country inland. Along the 
top of another wall, bordering the lawn and 
also forming a retaining wall for the water, 
is a long row of rudbeckias and gladioli, with 
lower plants in front. Along the other side 
of the lawn is a fence which is usually cov¬ 
ered with honicera bracbypoda or Hall’s ever¬ 
green honeysuckle, which blooms from mid¬ 
summer until frost. The mouth of the river 
forms a fine anchorage for boats, and there 
is no greater pleasure than to sit on 
the piazza, surrounded by our well-loved 
flowers, and watch our yacht riding at her 
moorings. 
This delightful home is not alone interest¬ 
ing for its grounds, views and other outdoor 
surroundings ; the interior is full of attractive 
old pieces of furniture which have been gath¬ 
ered one by one. The rooms are large ; the 
dining-room especially is a delightfully large, 
shaded room containing a fine old Chippen¬ 
dale sideboard and a great deal of good, old 
blue china. Another room, used also as a 
dining-room in the early spring and late 
autumn, is filled with more modern dishes 
and furniture; thus the old and the new have 
been cleverly separated. 
The bedrooms are all large and have some 
good old pieces in them—handsome, four- 
post bedsteads, Colonial bureaus with glass 
knobs, highboys, splendid old mirrors in 
wood and gilt frames. 
If it be only a summer 
home, where we spend but a 
few months, we should give 
it a few moments thought 
and each year do something 
to add to its natural beauty : 
a tree planted where it will 
give a comfortable shade, or 
possibly a clump of shrubs 
which will grow with very 
little care and will be beau¬ 
tiful to the eye and may also 
screen some objectionable 
view, or else a long bed of 
perennials so arranged that 
some will bloom all summer, 
or even a few annuals will be 
a great joy during each morn¬ 
ing of the long hot days. 
a guest’s room 
90 
