70 Old Time Gardens 



garden are excellent types ; they are at Napanock, 

 County Ulster, New . York. Such a house and 

 grounds indicated the possession of considerable 

 wealth when they were built and laid out, for both 

 were costly. The semicircular driveway swept up 



Kitchen Doorway and Porch at the Hedges. 



to the front door, dividing off Box-edged parterres 

 like those of the day of Queen Anne. These par- 

 terres were sparsely filled, the sunnier beds being 

 set with Spring bulbs ; and there were always the 

 yellow Day Lilies somewhere in the flower beds, and 

 the white and blue Day Lilies, the common Funkias. 

 Formal urns were usually found in the parterres and 



