Box Edgings 



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home garden. It is said that this Box was thriving 

 in Madam Sylvester's garden when George Fox 

 preached there to the Indians. The oldest Box is 

 fifteen or eighteen feet high ; not so tall, I think, as 

 the neglected Box at Vaucluse, the old Hazard place 

 near Newport, but far more massive and thrifty and 

 shapely. Box needs unusual care and judgment, an 

 instinct almost, for the removal of certain portions. 



Ancient Box at Tuckakoe. 



It sends out tiny rootlets at the joints of the sprays, 

 and these grow readily. The largest and oldest 

 Box bushes at Sylvester Manor garden are a study 

 in their strong, hearty stems, their perfect foliage, 

 their symmetry; they show their care of centuries. 

 The delightful Box-edged flower beds were laid 

 out in their present form about seventy years ago 

 by the grandfather of the present owner. There 

 is a Lower Garden, a Terrace Garden, which are 

 shown on succeeding pages, a Fountain Garden, a 



