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would have a benefiting and softening influence 

 on these criminals. She writes rather dubiously : 

 " They all enjoyed being out of doors with their 

 pipes, whether among the flowers or the vegetables ; 

 and no attempt at escape was ever made by any 

 of them while in the comparative freedom of the 

 flower-garden." She planted and marked distinctly 

 in this garden over seven hundred groups of an- 

 nuals and hardy perennials, hoping the men would 

 care to learn the names of the flowers, and through 

 that knowledge, and their practise in the care of 

 Box edgings and hedges, be able to obtain positions 

 as under-gardeners when their terms of imprison- 

 ment expired. 



The garden at Tudor Place, the home of Mrs. 

 Beverley Kennon (page 103), displays fine Box; 

 and the garden of the poet Longfellow which is 

 said to have been laid out after the Box-edged 

 parterres at Versailles. Throughout this book are 

 scattered several good examples of Box from Salem 

 and other towns ; in a sweet, old garden on Kings- 

 ton Hill, Rhode Island (page 104) the flower-beds 

 are anchor-shaped. 



In favorable climates Box edgings may grow in 

 such vigor as to entirely fill the garden beds. An 

 example of this is given on page 105, showing the 

 garden at Tuckahoe. The beds were laid out over 

 a large space of ground in a beautiful design, which 

 still may be faintly seen by examining the dark ex- 

 panse beside the house, which is now almost solid 

 Box. The great hedges by the avenue are also 

 Box ; between similar ones at Uhpton Court in 



