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Camden, South Carolina, riders on horseback can- 

 not be seen nor see over it. New England towns 

 seldom show such growth of Box ; but in Hingham, 

 Massachusetts, at the home of Mrs. Robbins, author 

 of that charming book, The Rescue of an Old Place, 



Garden at Tudor Place. 



there is a Box bower, with walls of Box fifteen feet 

 in height. These walls were originally the edgings 

 of a flower bed on the " Old Place." Read Dr. 

 John Brown's charming account of the Box bower 

 of the "Queen's Maries." 



Box grows on Long Island with great vigor. At 

 Brecknock Hall, the family residence of Mrs. Albert 



