Architect and engineer . r what mar-velous blooms the eye may wander, to whatexquisite prospect of distant peak or flash-ing ocean, the garden will be a laid-outthing, an artificial thing, not a part of thehouse, but an approach to it. I grant you that such garden seclusionand intimacy as this is not easy to achieve,for we cannot all build our houses at thefeet of a climbing hemlock forest or besidea wall of whispering pines. But they can beplanted. They grow slowly—gardens can-not be made in a generation—and it is ourchildren who will see beyond the daffodilsor hollyhocks the mystery of their
Architect and engineer . r what mar-velous blooms the eye may wander, to whatexquisite prospect of distant peak or flash-ing ocean, the garden will be a laid-outthing, an artificial thing, not a part of thehouse, but an approach to it. I grant you that such garden seclusionand intimacy as this is not easy to achieve,for we cannot all build our houses at thefeet of a climbing hemlock forest or besidea wall of whispering pines. But they can beplanted. They grow slowly—gardens can-not be made in a generation—and it is ourchildren who will see beyond the daffodilsor hollyhocks the mystery of their shadowcaves. The first and perhaps the last secretis tree planting, not flower planting. I havedreamed lovely gardens with no blooms butshrubs and wild flowers in them, but neverone without trees. The whispering wall oftheir foliage is as necessary as the welcom-ing wall of the house. The architect whoplans the estate must provide for the one noless carefully than the other, or his workwill never come to EARL STOILAGt The unusual charm of thk house ii achieved bya broad expanse of roof reheved by ?harp gablesof unequal value happily plated. -TThe hiyh roofprovides gpace in which two room? and balh maybe added as the owner requires.
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