The livable house, its garden . SIMPLE ROSE ARCHES OF VERYC;o()D DESIGN Garden of Miss Emily Slade al Windsor,Vermont, diaries A. Piatt. .Inliiteet A GATEWAY AND ARBOR ATHAMILTON FARM Estate of James Cox Brady, (>ladstone,AVic Jersey. Ruth Dean, Ar< liiteet true of any free-standing wall or fence. If it does not grow outof a building or end against one, its terminations must be con-cealed by planting. Such a piece of wall is well taken care of onthe Schift place, where evergreens and sturdy shrubs make it partof its surroundings. The same criticism of loose ends is to be made of a great
The livable house, its garden . SIMPLE ROSE ARCHES OF VERYC;o()D DESIGN Garden of Miss Emily Slade al Windsor,Vermont, diaries A. Piatt. .Inliiteet A GATEWAY AND ARBOR ATHAMILTON FARM Estate of James Cox Brady, (>ladstone,AVic Jersey. Ruth Dean, Ar< liiteet true of any free-standing wall or fence. If it does not grow outof a building or end against one, its terminations must be con-cealed by planting. Such a piece of wall is well taken care of onthe Schift place, where evergreens and sturdy shrubs make it partof its surroundings. The same criticism of loose ends is to be made of a great manyarbors and pergolas. An arbor should begin at some expectedand natural place and end in the same way: should lead from onespot to another, and not be just set down in the midst of interesting arbor is that on the grounds of Mr. Jonathan God-frey where the arbor is in effect part of a wall. The beams run [142] G a d n. A WALL PERGOLA WITH VALUABLEPLANTING SPACE AT ITS BASE Garden of Mr. Jonathan Godfrey, at Bridgeport, Connecticut Marian C. Coffin, Landscape Architect; F. Burrall Hoffman, Architect [143] T h L I V a b I H from a r(3w of columns to piers which are extensions of the wall,ami which leave pleasing window-like openings in the upper partof the wall. One of the unexpected sources of success in this per-gola is the planting space at the foot of the wall; with no roomleft in which to plant a friendly vine the arbor would be withouthalf its charm. Another good combination of wall and pergola is the pergolagate in the rose garden on the Walton estate at St. Davids. Ma-terials, as well as good design, are responsible for much of itsinterest; the round columns of stone roughly plastered have apleasant, careless charm which is increased by the use of brokenflag walks. Of all the means whereby walls may be made interesting, prob-ably the most effective is thewall fountain. There is some-thing verv
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