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everlasting in their slow growth, but who would make such a 

 garden now? Let us preserve these that we have, in honor of 

 a day long dead, but for the new ones the new order to which we 

 have changed is certainly best. 



Of the new ones the most beautiful and most carefully tended 

 formal garden that I know of has a gray stone bird bath in the 

 center of a sweep of velvet turf. Radiating from this axis are 

 grass walks which bound formal beds that are outlined in that 

 beautiful dark green, dwarf Boxwood, Buxus sempervirens suffruti- 

 cosa. Accenting the corners and marking the turns in these 

 beds are small conifers, the Juniperus communis hibernica. It 

 is the delight of the gardener to keep those beds filled with a 

 changing panorama of exquisite color that varies from season to 

 season. Once there were thousands of Darwin Tulips of every 

 tint in their rhythm of color harmony; later there were hundreds 

 of Phlox Drumjnondii and Sweet Williams in all the tones of pink 

 and red; again the whole garden was carpeted in flowers of the 

 salmon tints that line the shells on the beach on a Summer's 

 morning; Snapdragons, Poppies, Tulips, Hyacinths, in every 

 imaginable depth and shade, but all of the one key in the color 

 scale. Not a discord in the whole range of the garden's harmony. 

 Again the fragrant Violas and velvety Pansies lifted their faces 

 skyward and the garden was tinted from white to sunny gold 



Juniperus virginiana behind Ligustrum amurense makes a soft but very effective screen 



