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its effective stone work. The face of its wall is covered 

 with Eitonymus radicans, var. varicgata. Back of 

 this place the velvet lawns are gracefully set with 

 choice things. Here is a handsome Teas's weeping 

 mulberry, and, in spots, clump the spike-like leaves of 

 the Yucca filamentosa, or Adam's needle, which send 

 up straight shafts from their midst, in mid-summer. 

 At the top of the shaft its bloom breaks forth in great 

 heads of white flowers. Majestic American elms 

 guard the upper edge of this lawn in a kind of half 

 ring and they seem to have been just the right trees 

 to set off the foliage of the basswoods, silver lindens, 

 tulip trees, Norway maples, sugar maples, English field 

 maples and sycamore maples which fill this lovely 

 spot with their shifting shadows and whispering 

 music. 



About the Restaurant itself, the beautiful things 

 gathered there are too numerous to give in detail. We 

 can point out only a few. On the right, as you face 

 it there is a fine copper beech with rich copper colored 

 leaves and a Scotch elm grafted on the stock of U linns 

 fuk'a, near the terrace wall. Near the path at the 

 right-hand end of the Restaurant you will find the 

 beautiful little Japan parasol tree or umbrella pine 

 (S dado pity s vertidllata) with leaves in whorls of thir- 

 ty to forty at the extremities of the branches. Here, 

 too, are many Retinosporas, among them a very hand- 

 some squarrosa. Clustered about the eastern end of 

 the Restaurant, close by it, are garden hydrangea, 

 dwarf Japan catalpa and weeping Chinese lilac. On 

 the left of the Restaurant, close by it, are panicled hy- 



