. Houses for town or country. isnothing to interfere with the enjoyment of the natu-ral beauties of the site. The garden has been placedon one side, its axis coinciding with the central lineof the two porches and the colonnade which connectsthem, and it is assuredly one of the most charmingsmall gardens in this country. Its scale harmoniseswith that of the house and its character with that ofits surroundings. In general appearance it is justa little rough, as it should be, considering the rough-ness of some of the immediately adjoining land, butits roughness has not the remotest suggestion eit
. Houses for town or country. isnothing to interfere with the enjoyment of the natu-ral beauties of the site. The garden has been placedon one side, its axis coinciding with the central lineof the two porches and the colonnade which connectsthem, and it is assuredly one of the most charmingsmall gardens in this country. Its scale harmoniseswith that of the house and its character with that ofits surroundings. In general appearance it is justa little rough, as it should be, considering the rough-ness of some of the immediately adjoining land, butits roughness has not the remotest suggestion eitherof being affected or slovenly. It is merely an addi-tional illustration of the happy completeness withwhich the design of the house and the garden has beenwrought into the site. A better example could notbe desired of a formal plan which depends uponthe use of simple means and which reaches a novel,picturesque and idiomatic effect. On a scale between this and Weld are a house and 209 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY M^^a4^> R. HOUSE OF FREDERICK CULVER, ESQ., HADLYME, CONN. garden at Warren, Rhode Island. The plot of landon which the house is situated is neither very largenor ver}^ small. It neither rises to the dignity of acountry estate nor sinks to the comparative insignifi-cance of a suburban villa site. It comprises some tenacres of land, so near to a large city that the trolleycars skirt its boundaries, but so far away that theimmediate neighbourhood is not thickly settled. Itsowner consequently has as much room as he needs 2IO w
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