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GATE OF A WALK TO THE LILY-POND 
WALMER LODGE 
from the garden, the house does not work 
into the composition as the grand central 
finish to all the garden vistas. To enlarge 
the house, and also to add a little to its 
architectural importance, Mr. Edwin O. 
Sachs, author of the standard work on the¬ 
atres, was commissioned to remodel it; and 
it was upon the recommendation of this 
gentleman, that the writer was entrusted with 
the designing and laying out of the gardens. 
THE TERRACES FROM THE PAVILION 
It will he seen from the accompanying 
plan that, although the house stands close to 
the road there is a large piece ot ground be¬ 
tween it and the shore. By the erection of 
a connecting bridge over the public highway 
this space has been brought into the scheme. 
As the road is so much below the level of 
the house, it has been found possible to 
unite the two spaces and yet to screen both 
sides of the road without hiding the view of 
THE PAVILION FROM THE FLOWER GARDEN 
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