American homes and gardens . In the Vestibule The Small Well and Vase on the Lawn From the door the drive makes a circle around a lily poolwith a center of palm and aquatic plants, which is hedgedabout with rose-vines, encircled by various flowering plants,largely coxcombs, and set in a plot of emerald lawn. The lawn which begins here sweeps to the road on the oneside, and far toward the valley on the other. At its foot,for some distance, runs a deep ravine with the inevitablebrook in its depths. This is one of the finest streams in thiswater-threaded country, and adds inestimably to the beaut
American homes and gardens . In the Vestibule The Small Well and Vase on the Lawn From the door the drive makes a circle around a lily poolwith a center of palm and aquatic plants, which is hedgedabout with rose-vines, encircled by various flowering plants,largely coxcombs, and set in a plot of emerald lawn. The lawn which begins here sweeps to the road on the oneside, and far toward the valley on the other. At its foot,for some distance, runs a deep ravine with the inevitablebrook in its depths. This is one of the finest streams in thiswater-threaded country, and adds inestimably to the beautyof the place, to say nothing of its stock of trout. It lies with-in a stones throw of the house, and yet the cut is so pre-cipitous and so flanked with trees that it can be seen from thehouse only as a retreat that must be visited to be known. Where the brook enters the grounds from the street ithas been coaxed into forming a small pond, where an oc-casional azalea, a few elder bushes, a magnificent chestnut,and banks of fe
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