They came to the conclusion that there were not too many for the size of the grounds and were well satisfied with their choice.
“Do you see how well we’re going to see the house from here?” Dorothy asked.
They all agreed that it would be very pretty from that point.
“My idea is that the garden must look well from the house,” said Dorothy. “Mother wants a pergola somewhere. Don’t you think the right place for it would be covering a walk leading from the house to here?”
“That’s a great notion,” approved Tom. “As you came toward the garden you’d have a—what do you call the effect—where you see a view framed in somehow?”
“Do you mean a vista?” asked Margaret.
“That’s it. There would be a vista of the garden.”
“It will be lovely!” Helen said decisively. “And I don’t see why there shouldn’t be a trellis framing a view of the woods toward Grandfather Emerson’s; that would be pretty, too.”
A Trellis Framing a View of the Woods