Full Garden Mrs. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt

(51) Mrs. Roy A. Hunt has a two-and one-half acre estate in the city. There are several gardens surrounding the house, and this is the path which leads to the walled garden. (52) We arrive at the gate-way, and we find a garden gate can be as beautiful in winter as in summer. (53) An old wrought iron bell from the palace of Prince Leopold in Florence (he was the brother of Marie Antoinette) is really more striking in winter than in summer. (54) The floor of the garden is almost two feet lower than the perennial border around the walls, and has a pool, copied from one of the Italian villa pools. The planting in the four beds is kept quite low. The color scheme is usually blue, lavender and soft pink. This slide shows the view from the little arbor toward the entrance gate. (55) The paths are made of small old brick with grass growing between, and gives the effect of a velvety green walk. (56) A dipping fountain is made from an old Italian sarcophagus of white marble. Since these pictures were taken, the tops of the wall are entirely covered with English ivy, and the poplar trees in the background have been pruned and shaped into a thick mass. Ralph Griswold was the landscape architect. (57) Beyond the walled garden lies the green garden, a large enclosure with a semi-circular entrance, which leads towards the house. A high trellis wall is completly covered (58) with vines, and the late blooming wisteria, which in June is a superb mass of color. The beds are bordered with euonymous, and the four corners are accented with statues of old French dramatists, and near the entrance are two large stone vases, copies from the vases at Bagatelle. (59) The scheme of this garden is distinctly French. There is an old apple tree in the garden, and this fine old English elm. (60) This is a picture of the gateway into the green garden, old marble columns surmounted by limestone baskets, and a wrought iron gate-way.