House & Garden 
As a contrast 
to a town house, 
the gardens are 
to be as gay 
with flowers and 
shrubs as cir- 
cumstances 
allow, and there¬ 
fore provision 
has to be made 
for the constant 
replenishing and 
refurnishing of 
the borders, vases, etc., for which plants 
have to be cultivated in quarters especially 
prepared for them. Fortunately the mild 
equable climate along this coast assures 
success in this department. Unlike an old 
ancestral home whose owner religiously 
plants for the pleasure of succeeding genera¬ 
tions, immediate effect is what is here 
required. To secure it an abundance of 
architectural features is needed on the one 
hand, and on the other a choice of trees 
which are of 
quick growth. 
In the center 
of a popular 
watering-place 
privacy is always 
desirable in the 
formation of a 
garden ; and to 
secure this, in 
addition to the 
raised terrace 
already referred 
to, banks of earth have been thrown up and 
thickly planted where the arrangement of the 
buildings did not secure due seclusion. 
I'he problem here was to wed the some¬ 
what stately Italian Renaissance house to the 
distinctly rural recreative characteristics of 
the ground, without losing the pervading 
character of dignity in the former, and to 
pleasingly surround the spacious lawns of 
the latter, and lead from one to the other 
without incongruous disjointed breaks or 
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