House Garden 
A WATERSIDE COTTAGE BROECK 
The gardens, 
like their own¬ 
ers, were char¬ 
acterized by a 
certain middle- 
class dignity 
and stateliness. 
Traversing the 
long hall and 
passing through 
the great door 
one came first 
into the 'inner 
court separating 
the garden 
proper from the 
house. This 
court with its 
ornamental old 
pump suggests 
so strongly 
thoughts of a day long gone that one would they belonged,—a 
hardly be surprised to meet his great grand- in the middle a ball 
ON ONE OF THE MINOR CANALS 
father there 
wearing the same 
hat and peruke, 
which the old 
silhouette on the 
wall has made so 
familiar, and in 
his hand the 
same cane with 
time -yellowed 
ivory knob 
which is treas¬ 
ured as a relic 
in the corner of 
the room at 
home. 
Some f e w 
gardens bear 
unchanged the 
the Hague signs of the 
period to which 
large grass plot or lawn, 
-shaped garden-mirror, or, 
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