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sometimes a great cone or ball of clipped Box. These 

 gardens had some universal details, they always had 

 great Snowball bushes, and Syringas, and usually 

 white Roses, chiefly Madame Plantiers ; the piazza 

 trellises had old climbing Roses, the Queen of the 

 Prairie or Boursault Roses. These gardens are 

 often densely overshadowed with great evergreen 

 trees grown from the crowded planting of seventy 

 years ago ; none are cut down, and if one dies its 

 trunk still stands, entwined with Woodbine. I don't 

 know that we would lay out and plant just such a 

 garden to-day, any more than we would build exactly 

 such a house; but I love to see both, types of the 

 refinement of their day, and I deplore any changes. 

 An old Southern house of allied form is shown on 

 page 72, and its garden facing page 70, Green- 

 wood, in Thomasville, Georgia ; but of course this 

 garden has far more lavish and rich bloom. The 

 decoration of this house is most interesting a 

 conventionalized Magnolia, and the garden is 

 surrounded with splendid Magnolias and Crape 

 Myrtles. The border edgings in this garden are 

 lines of bricks set overlapping in a curious manner. 

 They serve to keep the beds firmly in place, and the 

 bricks are covered over with an inner edging of 

 thrifty Violets. Curious tubs and boxes for plants 

 are made of bricks set solidly in mortar. The gar- 

 den is glorious with Roses, which seem to consort 

 so well with Magnolias and Violets. 



I love a Dutch garden, " circummured " with 

 brick. By a Dutch garden, I mean a small garden, 

 oblong or square, sunk about three or four feet in 



