Pond at the house entrance of “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).
The house was built in 1849 and still exists.
Category: garden design
Wordless Wednesday: jardin des sens
A small park for the blind, Besançon, France, June 2016.
Vintage landscape: Thornedale
Sugar maple allée at “Thornedale,” Millbrook, New York, 1919, hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Stafford Thorne is credited with the garden’s design. The estate still exists under family ownership.
The Sunday porch: ice cream
“Waiters at Day and Brothers Ice Cream Saloon,” 1880, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, by William H. Stauffer, via Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, The New York Public Library.
The image is not very clear, but it looks like a fun place. The same company still exists at the location shown above as Day’s Ice Cream. It is Ocean Grove‘s oldest continuously operating business.
Life in gardens: delicately
“Aileen Parker watering a garden with a hose, Toronto, Ontario,” June 26, 1920, by John Boyd, via Library and Archives Canada on flickr (used under CC license).
. . . To love,
this song of water,
the insects work their garden long into the sun,
and the apples, still far away,
dream October.— Richard Barnes, from “Watering the Lawn“
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