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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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t room A modest simple dwelling: stuccoed, light granite gray in color each side of the door is a green trellis that supports clematis; beyond, at the ends, is Virginia creeper. On the step are i^vo grotesque marble dolphins, and at the base are two small red terra-cotta jars, each containing a mimic Scotch pine. A great gray-pebbled circle lies before the door; in the center is a marble block supporting a large yellow-brown pottery jar. The further border of the circle is arranged as an exedra, wnth a semi-circular seat of concrete with marble ends. In the center are marble steps to a higher pathway; here and at the ends are red pots containing small bushes of pyramid box. Above the steps is a grassed path that pres- ently loses itself in the distant woods. At the beginning it is bordered with peonies, high-growing lilies and tree hydrangeas, which are continued to two stands of clematis and a couple of poplar trees. Then comes an apple orchard, and here the path border consists of large ferns; further off these give way to mountain laurel, and finally, when the path has penetrated the dense wood, the border is low hem- locks. On the left, at the beginning of the path, is the tennis court, so overshadowed by the woods as to be completely without sun in the afternoon. One enters the enchanted space in which all this simple beauty lies through a picket gate in a brick wall, drab painted and overgrown with Virginia creeper. Just without are two shaped hemlocks. On the right is a low stone wall, capped with white marble, above which is a hedge of clipped lilacs. Inside a brilliant flower border of hardy phlox, golden glow, larkspur, poppies, lilies and other gay flowering plants runs to the exhedra and beyond it. The forespace there is arranged with great simplicity but in quite a formal way. On the left is a square of lawn; sunk in it, near the studio, is a small square lily pond with white marble border. The lawn

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