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of some tree trunks ; and Larkspur, Foxglove, and 

 other tall flowers crowded up to them and hung 

 their heads over the top rails as children hang over 

 a fence or a gate. I thought it a neat, trim fashion, 

 not one I would care for in my own garden, yet 

 not to be despised in the garden of another. 



A garden enclosed ! so full of suggestion are these 

 simple words to me, so constant is my thought that 



Garden of Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright. Waldstein, Fairfield. Conn. 



an ideal flower garden must be an enclosed garden, 

 that I look with regret upon all beautiful flower beds 

 that are not enclosed, not shut in a frame of green 

 hedges, or high walls, or vine-covered fences and 

 dividing trees. It may be selfish to hide so much 

 beauty from general view; but until our dwelling- 

 houses are made with uncurtained glass walls, that 

 all the world may see everything, let those who 



