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IX 



AUGUST, 1916 



Number 3 



A Garden of Beautiful Flowers. 



BV CAROLINE CLARK HINTON, BOISE^ IDAHO. 



Elizabeth Park, Hartford, famed for 

 its rose garden and many beautiful 



flowers, attracts man\- visitors from all 



THE FAMILIAR LARKSPUR. 



over New England. On a Sunda}- auto- 

 mobiles from various states ntpve slowly 

 about the park, while hundreds of pedes- 

 trians study the roses and old-fashioned 

 flowers more closely, learning, as they 

 do so, what flower gardening is like on a 

 lar^e scale. 



All of us are more or less familiar with 

 the usual country house garden with its- 

 crimson ramblers, its rows of Canterbury 

 bells, its beds of larkspur and phlox. 

 Now that gardening, even for the ama- 

 teur, has become more than a fad, and 

 flowers more than a recreation, we can: 

 appreciate the real work, the care and 

 thought, that has been put into these 

 country gardens. 



In Elizabeth Park we have these gar- 

 dens ojQ; an immense scale. The huge 

 beds pfvp;hlox of velvety maroons and 



■BEDS OF PHLOX OF VEL^•ETY MAROONS." 



Copyright 1916 by The Agassiz Association, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 



