The San Francisco call., 1913-10-04
ROSE GARDENS. WALKS AND
SEATS TO TEMPT YOU

- - PAIN 10 the noSpltabe doorway, you would be
inclined to loiter you pass the Rose Garden where
the sun dial stands, and note the birds splashng in
the bath around it, and speculate the gardens
alurlngly half hidden by the terrace before you Be-
ing formal caller you would stand sedately on the
little porch, your back to the charming garden, your
mind and tongue receptively fixed to meet the open
ing door with the proper phrase, your greeting nicely
tempered to be adequate to all emergencies. Once in
the spacious atmosphere of the living room you may
catch tantalzing glimpses Of the grounds from the
curained easement stretch of brick path along the
terrace, the green-twned columns Of pergoa, and
vista OF nterlacng boughs and color between them.
Why not be the owner of the Ideal Home and have
it all belong to you? All seasons of the year have
their particular charm out of doors, and who can
say whether the deep greens of midsummer more
beautiful than the purple boughs and snow crusts of
winter or the lush verdure Of the spring farer than
the vivid painting of the autumn? Every day will
tempt you to enjoy the gardens of the Ideal Home.
According to modern standards the heavy demarca-
ton between outside the house and inside the house
is, to great extent, erased. Let your house
flow into your garden and your garden into your
house.
The trels that leads from your entrance door into
your Rose Garden, circles its burden of rambling
clusters your head as you pass under and stroll
about the prim little paths, grassedged, that mark
off the formal beds where all your hardy beauties lift
their scented faces There would be tea roses here
such as Elizabeth loved, and the hardy Killarney that
rose growers almost give away when they have ex-
hausted their usefulness to them. Oh there are any
number of your favores and there is room for them
all.
| F the just for themselves do not appeal to
you, 80 it the necessary cultivation and the lack Of
color effect in massing does not please you, think
what fascinating old fashioned garden you could
plant here! Lavender and heliotrope, love-in-anist
babies BREATH SnOwOn-t n-the-mountain, sweet alyssum
names to conJure with, and all for little border edg
ings! Bachelor buttons, pinks, asters, marigolds
mignonette and poppies planted all in masses and
back of them stocks, larkspur, Canterbury BELLS
hollyhocks snap-dragon, phlox and foxglove.
A sundial will make you pause to watch the shad-
creep about, and the bird bath give you endless
simple pleasure. Masses of shrubbery, as indicated
will furnish variety give shade, and make re-
treat possible. The potted hydrangeas guarding the
terrace steps give hint of the beauty beyond and
the little hedge Of japanese barberry box will give
quaint edging to the low terrace. From this
coign Of vantage the little house is spread before
you IN all its intimacy and charm. A glance
down to the shady court crowned by it's fine tree
shows a vista full Of allure, and in fact every
viewpoint has its appeal. There is ugliness
apparent anywhere all is beauty and promise
So on down the terrace steps at the back along
the grass walk, with the stately flower beds mass
ing color on each side, to the clump Of trees and
shrubs at the end parting to show the pool and
seat beyond; its pale color against the green of
the ounce bushes rejecting in the depths of the
still, dark water. Blue iris rings about the pool
and Towering bulbs are sown broadcast under the
d orchard trees naturalized in the grass From
" the seat with the pool at your feet YOU face the
N two tall clumps of trees and shrubbery the
~ lawn that mark the beginning Of the grass walk
leading back again to the terrace. A white birch
n CLEANS here against the Continued on Page 81