MIDWINTER GARDENS 



visage, but not as its whole countenance — 

 one flat feature never yet made a lovely face. 

 This lawn feature is beautified and magnified 

 by keeping it open from shrub border to shrub 

 border, saving it, above all things, from the 

 gaudy barbarism of pattern -bedding; and by 

 giving it swing and sweep of graceful con- 

 tours. And lastly, all ground lines of the house 

 are clothed with shrubberies whose deciduous 

 growths are companioned with broad-leafed 

 evergreens and varied conifers, in whatever 

 proportions will secure the best midwinter 

 effects without such abatement to those of 

 summer as would diminish the total of the 

 whole year's joy. 



These are things that can be done anywhere 

 in our land, and wherever done with due re- 

 gard to soil as well as to climate will give us 

 gardens worthy to be named with those of 

 New Orleans, if not, in some aspects and at 

 particular times of the year, excelling them. 

 As long as mistakes are made in the architec- 

 ture of houses they will be made in the architec- 

 ture of gardening, and New Orleans herself, by 



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