HALF-TONE PLATES
| [1] | "Kenarden Lodge," Bar Harbor, Maine | |
| [2] | "Blair Eyrie," Bar Harbor, Maine | |
| [3] | } | |
| [4] | } | "Hamilton House," South Berwick, Maine |
| [5] | } | |
| [6] | } | |
| [7] | } | |
| [8] | } | Cornish, N. H. |
| [9] | } | |
| [10] | } | |
| [11] | Old Bennington, Vt. | |
| [12] | } | |
| [13] | } | "Weld," Brookline, Mass. |
| [14] | } | |
| [15] | Wellesley, Mass. | |
| [16] | "Holm Lea," Brookline, Mass. | |
| [17] | } | |
| [18] | } | "Fairlawn," Lenox, Mass. |
| [19] | } | |
| [20] | } | |
| [21] | } | "Bellefontaine," Lenox, Mass. |
| [22] | } | |
| [23] | "Overloch," Wenham, Mass. | |
| [24] | "Fernbrooke," Lenox, Mass. | |
| [25] | "Chesterwood," Glendale, Mass. | |
| [26] | } | |
| [27] | } | "Riverside Farm," Tyringham, Mass. |
| [28] | } | |
| [29] | "Naum Keag," Stockbridge, Mass. | |
| [30] | "Brookside," Great Barrington, Mass. | |
| [31] | "Rock Maple Farm," Hamilton, Mass. | |
| [32] | Brookline, Mass. | |
| [33] | Longfellow's Garden, Cambridge, Mass. | |
| [34] | Old Witch House, Salem, Mass. | |
| [35] | "Mariemont," Newport, R. I. | |
| [36] | "The Elms," Newport, R. I. | |
| [37] | "Vernon Court," Newport, R. I. | |
| [38] | "Villaserra," Warren, R. I. | |
| [39] | "Woodside," Hartford, Conn. | |
| [40] | "Elmwood," Pomfret, Conn. | |
| [41] | Pomfret Centre, Conn. | |
| [42] | "Branford House," Groton, Conn. | |
| [43] | Pomfret Centre, Conn. | |
| [44] | } | |
| [45] | } | Auburn, N. Y. |
| [46] | Section of a Wild Garden at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. | |
| [47] | "Woodland," Tuxedo, N. Y. | |
| [48] | "Cragswerthe," Tuxedo, N. Y. | |
| [49] | "Blithewood," Barrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y. | |
| [50] | } | |
| [51] | } | "Wodenethe," Beacon-on-Hudson, N. Y. |
| [52] | } | |
| [53] | } | The Author's Childhood Garden, Newburgh-on-Hudson, N. Y. |
| [54] | "Echo Lawn," Newburgh-on-Hudson, N. Y. | |
| [55] | } | |
| [56] | } | "Meadowburn," Warwick, N. Y. |
| [57] | "Ridgeland Farm," Bedford, N. Y. | |
| [58] | Southampton, L. I. | |
| [59] | } | |
| [60] | } | |
| [61] | } | "The Orchard," Southampton, L. I. |
| [62] | } | |
| [63] | } | |
| [64] | } | "The Appletrees," Southampton, L. I. |
| [65] | Southampton, L. I. | |
| [66] | } | |
| [67] | } | |
| [68] | } | East Hampton, L. I. |
| [69] | } | |
| [70] | "Manor House," Glen Cove, L. I. | |
| [71] | Cedarhurst, L. I. | |
| [72] | Westbury, L. I. | |
| [73] | "Manor House," Glen Cove, L. I. | |
| [74] | "Sylvester Manor," Shelter Island | |
| [75] | "Cherrycroft," Morristown, N. J. | |
| [76] | "Ridgewood Hill," Morristown, N. J. | |
| [77] | Morristown, N. J. | |
| [78] | } | |
| [79] | } | "Blairsden," Peapack, N. J. |
| [80] | } | |
| [81] | "Brooklawn," Short Hills, N. J. | |
| [82] | } | |
| [83] | } | "Drumthwacket," Princeton, N. J. |
| [84] | } | |
| [85] | "Onunda," Madison, N. J. | |
| [86] | "Glen Alpine," Morristown, N. J. | |
| [87] | "Thornton," Rumson, N. J. | |
| [88] | Highland, N. J. | |
| [89] | "Allgates," Haverford, Pa. | |
| [90] | } | |
| [91] | } | Andalusia, Pa. |
| [92] | "Edgecombe," Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. | |
| [93] | "Krisheim," Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. | |
| [94] | } | |
| [95] | } | "Willow Bank," Bryn Mawr, Pa. |
| [96] | "Fancy Field," Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. | |
| [97] | "Timberline," Bryn Mawr, Pa. | |
| [98] | "Ballygarth," Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. | |
| [99] | "Hampton," Towson, Md. | |
| [100] | "Evergreen-on-Avenue," Baltimore, Md. | |
| [101] | "Cylburn House," Cylburn, Baltimore Co., Md. | |
| [102] | "Ingleside," Catonsville, Md. | |
| [103] | "The Blind," Havre de Grace, Md. | |
| [104] | } | |
| [105] | } | |
| [106] | } | Montpelier, Va. |
| [107] | } | |
| [108] | } | |
| [109] | } | "Rose Hill," Greenwood, Va. |
| [110] | "Meadowbrook Manor," Drewry's Bluff, Va. | |
| [111] | Richmond, Va. | |
| [112] | } | |
| [113] | } | "Magnolia Garden," Charleston, S. C. |
| [114] | } | |
| [115] | } | "Preston Garden," Columbia, S. C. |
| [116] | } | |
| [117] | } | |
| [118] | } | "Green Court," Augusta, Ga. |
| [119] | } | |
| [120] | Tropical Growth, Palm Beach, Fla. | |
| [121] | "Rostrevor," Knoxville, Tenn. | |
| [122] | Longview, Tenn. | |
| [123] | "Hazelwood," Kinloch, Mo. | |
| [124] | Lake Forest, Ill. | |
| [125] | "Hardin Hall," Hubbard's Wood, Ill. | |
| [126] | } | |
| [127] | } | "The Farms," Monticello, Ill. |
| [128] | } | |
| [129] | } | The Rock Garden, "Englishton Park," Lexington, Ind. |
| [130] | "Gwinn," Cleveland, Ohio | |
| [131] | } | |
| [132] | } | Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| [133] | } | |
| [134] | "Shadyside," Painesville, Ohio | |
| [135] | } | |
| [136] | } | "Indian Hill," Mentor, Ohio |
| [137] | "Orchard House," Alma, Mich. | |
| [138] | "Garra-tigh," Bay City, Mich. | |
| [139] | "Fairlawn," Grosse Points Shores, Mich. | |
| [140] | } | |
| [141] | } | "House-in-the-Woods," Lake Geneva, Wis. |
| [142] | Las Cruces, N. M. | |
| [143] | } | |
| [144] | } | "Kimberly Crest," Redlands, Cal. |
| [145] | "Glendessary," Santa Barbara, Cal. | |
| [146] | } | |
| [147] | } | "Piranhurst," Santa Barbara, Cal. |
| [148] | } | |
| [149] | Ross, Cal. | |
| [150] | Pasadena, Cal. | |
| [151] | } | |
| [152] | } | |
| [153] | } | "Cañon Crest Park," Redlands, Cal. |
| [154] | } | |
| [155] | Typical Growth in California | |
| [156] | } | |
| [157] | } | "Thornewood," Tacoma, Wash. |
| [158] | } | |
| [159] | } | |
| [160] | } | Seattle, Wash. |
| [161] | Section of a Rose Hedge Bordering an Avenue in Portland, Ore. | |
| [162] | "Rosecrest," Portland Heights, Portland, Ore. | |
| [163] | "Cliff Cottage," Elk Rock, Portland, Ore. | |
| [164] | "High Hatch," Riverwood, Portland, Ore. | |
| [165] | } | |
| [166] | } | Victoria City, Vancouver Island, B. C. |
| [167] | Longview, Tenn. | |
| [168] | "Knock-Mae-Cree," Westport, Conn. | |
| [169] | } | |
| [170] | } | "Hamilton House," South Berwick, Maine |
| [171] | } | |
| [172] | "Glen Alpine," Morristown, N. J. | |
| [173] | East Hampton, L. I. | |
| [174] | "Glendessary," Santa Barbara, Cal. | |
| [175] | Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
| [176] | "Thornewood," Tacoma, Wash. |
Title-Page: East Hampton, L. I., Albert Herter, Esq.
From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals.
"A garden was wonderful at night—a place of strange silences and yet stranger sound: trees darkly guarding mysterious paths that ran into caverns of darkness; the scents of flowers rising from damp earth heavy with dew; flowers that were weary with the dust and noise of the day and slept gently, gratefully, with their heads drooping to the soil, their petals closed by the tender hands of the spirits of the garden. The night sounds were strangely musical. Cries that were discordant in the day mingled now with the running of distant water, the last notes of some bird before it slept, the measured harmony of a far-away bell, the gentle rustle of some arrival in the thickets; the voice that could not be heard in the noisy chatter of the day rose softly now in a little song of the night and the dark trees and the silver firelight of the stars."
—Hugh Walpole.
FOREWORD
Books and magazines written by and for American architects usually show in their illustrations fine imitations of lovely French, English, and Italian formalism and works of art in marble or other stone ornamenting the gardens of great mansions in this country.
The object of this book is to present, more particularly, another type of garden, demonstrating the cultured American's love of beauty expressed through plant life rather than in stone; showing the development of his ideal in more original directions, when planning for himself the garden spot in which he is to live rather than when building wholly in imitation of some accepted type of classic art.
With but few exceptions, these illustrations are of a class which might be called personal gardens. The attractive features in nearly every view speak so eloquently for themselves that there seems but little need of detailed verbal description of each beautiful spot.
In covering all sections of the country, occasion is given for the observation and study of widely varying climatic conditions, the results of which the author has also sought to consider.
Some difficulty has been felt in properly ascribing the ownership of a number of the gardens illustrated. As a rule, there is but one recognized director of the garden's welfare—rarely are two members of a household equally interested. While he is by custom acknowledged master of the house, it is oftener she who rules supreme among the flowers. Misnaming the real possessor might be a serious mistake; attributing the ownership to two is superfluous; the benefit, where any doubt existed, has been therefore given to the fair sex, with due apology for possible errors.
Louise Shelton.
Morristown, N. J.,
October 28, 1915.