IN GARDEN AND FOREST for May 28th, 1890, we published outline plans of four small places, showing the importance of a skillful disposition of the house and other buildings with reference to special local circumstances. We present this week one of these same plans on a larger scale with the intention of showing the design a little more fully.

The place is not a new one, for the house, which is an old-fashioned, square, colonial brick structure, was built about fifty years ago, and the garden was laid out and planted at the same time. It had been long neglected and trees allowed to grow up and crowd each other so much that many were ruined, and they were so spread over the ground as to destroy all breadth. A few years ago, while alterations and additions were being made to the house, it was thought best to rearrange the garden at the same time, and, of course, the first thing to do was to thin out the trees and save the best of them, leaving in general a belt about the borders of the property to screen out neighboring buildings.

A low, broad terrace was thrown out on the east side of the house,

[210]lending dignity and support to it, and a wall was carried from the house to the street on the south, which completely enclosed the garden and made it retired, domestic and secluded.

As the house was distinctly a winter residence, this seclusion and protection of the garden was considered the more important, and for the same reason there were planted on each side of the circuit walk and about the borders of the property groups and masses of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs, mostly Rhododendrons, but also such plants as Andromedas, Kalmias, Mahonias, Daphne, Ledum, etc., to get variety and to gracefully edge down the masses.

It will be noticed that the house has two entrances: one from the street on the south, and the other from the paved court-yard on the north. This court serves also as an entrance to the stables and to the kitchens, which are in the “L” of the house, but so arranged as not to be obtrusive or disagreeable from the court.

The place is about two acres in extent, and is situated on flat, high ground in one of the larger cities of New England.