. American homes and gardens. First floor plan Second floor plan April, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 129 name, Salisbury Plain. De-spite their monotony theseplains, covered with long,dry, tawny grass, have abeauty of their own, abeauty best appreciated,perhaps, from the edge of agreat field of turnips orcabbages with the distantcathedral spire cutting intothe evening sky against aglorious strip of hazy goldensunset glowing beneath hugefluffy banks of Ruysdael orHobbema clouds. The sightreally transports one almostbodily to Holland and onlywindmills are lacking in thelandscape. The atmospher
. American homes and gardens. First floor plan Second floor plan April, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 129 name, Salisbury Plain. De-spite their monotony theseplains, covered with long,dry, tawny grass, have abeauty of their own, abeauty best appreciated,perhaps, from the edge of agreat field of turnips orcabbages with the distantcathedral spire cutting intothe evening sky against aglorious strip of hazy goldensunset glowing beneath hugefluffy banks of Ruysdael orHobbema clouds. The sightreally transports one almostbodily to Holland and onlywindmills are lacking in thelandscape. The atmosphereof Garden City, however, isnot at all Dutch but ratherEnglish with its bishops,deans, canons and chaptersso that, at times, one quitefancies himself living in. into three panels, the lowersolid, the middle with mov-able slats and the upperpierced with narrow, slant-ing crescent slits. From the wide Dutchdoor beneath the Wistaria-covered portico, a heart-whole welcome seems toradiate and greet the ap-proaching guest. The buxombox bushes, too, flanking theentrance, add their note ofcheery greeting even in thedead of Winter when all elseis bare and brown. At thesouth end of the house apiazza has been so felicit-ously managed that, althoughit does not belong toWyes particular speciesof architecture, it escapes theobjection of now, someone asks,what is the particular The hallway the pages of one of Anthony Trollopes Barchester novels, species of architecture that Wye House represents? It But all this talk of cabbages, cathedral spires and sunsets is Colonial—not Georgian but Colonial, really, truly is not describing Wye House, however much of a setting Colonial of the days before there was any Georgian and, it may give. Let us,
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