LILIES AND IRIS 



The straight Box-edged paths, and the 

 formally shaped beds surrounded with Box, 

 are found in all of the early gardens, the 

 idea having heen brought over from the old 

 country by the colonists who planned their 

 new gardens here, after the manner of those 

 they had known and loved at home, and 

 grew wherever possible the flowers they had 

 tended across the sea. 



The English and early American formal 

 gardens were a modification and simplifica- 

 tion of the elaborate Italian gardens, where 

 architectural structures, tall cypress trees 

 and ilex and myrtle hedges were the prin- 

 cipal elements. 



To many persons who have never been 

 gardeners themselves, or studied the pleas- 

 ing art, all formal gardens are Italian 

 gardens, and since making this new one I 

 have spent much time in explaining, that it 

 is not an Italian garden but a Colonial one, 

 designed from a garden made in America 

 about 1760. 



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