ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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THE ITALIAN GARDEN IX KAIRD COURT. 



Three flights of broad steps on the south, 

 east and west, lead into the garden proper. 

 each being connected with the others, and also 

 with the entrance in the center of the lower 

 terrace, by grass walks, forming a cross within 

 a diamond. This purely formal treatment of 

 the garden was demanded by the surrounding 

 cut-stone work, and indeed it is the only one 

 that could have given satisfaction in a situa- 

 tion such as this. 



Of the eight triangular beds thus formed, 

 those on the outside of the diamond are relied 

 upon to give strength and character, and the 

 four central ones have been planned to fur- 

 nish color. To accomplish this idea, great 

 masses of evergreens, from stately cedars, 

 eighteen feet high, to trailing junipers of half 

 as many inches, have been thickly planted, 

 forming an irregular, serrated slope from the 

 outside toward the center, and merging, so to 

 say, into the box margins, with which all the 

 walks are defined. These evergreens are of 

 many sizes, forms, and hues, and compose 

 groups, any one of which would make a brave 

 showing, even if standing alone. Combined 



as they are, they make a beautiful setting for 

 the four flower-beds, which with their box 

 edgings and bright masses of color, add to the 

 garden another feature of interest and life. 



It is the intention to have an uninterrupted 

 display of flowers in these central beds, be- 

 ginning with crocuses, tulips, and other 

 early spring flowering bulbs, and continuing 

 through summer bedding-plants, to late asters 

 and dwarf chrysanthemums. For this season 

 the beds have been planted with a double ge- 

 ranium of a glowing dark red color, named 

 the S. A. Nutt. These bedding-plants will be 

 supplied by our own nursery green-houses at 

 Bronxdale. 



Of evergreens, five hundred were used, con- 

 sisting of such varieties as red cedars, green 

 ,-ind gold Japanese cypresses, mugho pine, 

 various dwarf arborvitjes and >cws, a number 

 of junipers and the small-leaved Japanese 

 holly. Thirty-two hundred twelve-inch box 

 bushes were used for the edgings, and in the 

 flower beds eighteen hundred geraniums were 

 planted. H. w. m. 



