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Thirdly, the adorning features of choice shrubbery 

 groups and behs, remarkably well filled herbaceous 

 borders, and on the crown of all, a highly natural- 

 looking rock garden. Evidently the rock upon which 

 New York City is built extends here, too, and strati- 

 fied layers of it crop out in such a way as brings back 

 to mind little prominences and cameos of true hill- 

 land scenery. Who says that rock gardening in Amer- 

 ica may not be made a bright and interesting feature 

 is truly behind the times — a man of pessimistical or 

 foreshortened outlook. Why, here are sheets of the 

 double and single-fringed Pinks which, even when 



On the left or north side there is a hexagonal shaped 

 Summer house, its base and sides built of stone, also 

 the stone piers, but the roof was formed of cork bark. 

 This gave a rustice etifect and kept it well in harmony 

 with the garden. Sempervirums. or House Leeks, were 

 colonized here and there in niches of the bark. 



From this collection of alpines a few steps takes 

 one on to the lawns with the pergola marking the 

 division between them and the rockery. This pergola 

 form-s a right angle, running first down then across. 

 Each wav it is about 100 feet in length, 9 feet high and 

 9 feet \\ide. The walls and pillars are of stone, the 



THE PIXE NEEDLE WALK OX THE GEO. W. PEKKI.X.^ L.^IWTE .VMdXC. THE RIlolJuljEXDROXS. 



DRED OF M.VXY \'.\RIETIES ARE PLANTED HERE. 



MORE THAX FIFTEEN HUX- 



only their stems and leaves remain, are ornamental. 

 There are also Sedums and House Leeks, Heucheras 

 or Alum root. Poppies — the Peacock Poppy, the or- 

 ange-colored pilosum and the Iceland varieties for 

 later flowering, and such vigorous and desirable plants 

 as Saponaria ocymoides. the Soapwort. Cerastium 

 tomentosum, popularly called Snow-in-Summer ; the 

 gray-leaved, blue-flowered Veronica incana (Speed- 

 well), the double white Arabis or Rock Cress, with its 

 companion of the early spring, the yellow Allyssuni 

 saxatile fl. pi. 



This rock garden occupied the crown of the high- 

 est ground and was perfectly open, although suf- 

 ficiently sheltered in its outward surroundings by tall 

 trees. It gentlv sloped on at least three of its sirtjs. 



roof of wood beanis with scalloped ends abutting be- 

 yond the longitudinal supports. Here are Roses in 

 variety, Wistaria, Lonicera Halleana, Vitises, and 

 dwarfed subjects for the lower parts. 



L'pon the lawns parallel with the pergola were lines 

 and groups of neat golden Privet, a shrub that is 

 accessible to every one and ought to be far more lib- 

 erallv used for brightening up many a corner. 



It is a pleasant outlook — the wooded slope across the 

 water, the lawns, terraces, flower borders and big trees 

 where we stand. These flower borders lie westward from 

 the pergola and below it. They are thus in view from two 

 sides. The outline is sinuous. Here are great golden 

 colonies of Helianthus, Rudbeckia, Coreopsis ; blue 

 masses of tall Delphiniums, the light blue Belladonna 



