VARIOUS GARDENS 



Kaempferi, the little pointed box-tree at the left 

 a good foil for the gay colors of the flowers. 

 Everywhere balance, symmetry that regularity 

 which is perhaps more precious for the small 

 piece of ground than for the large, since it pro- 

 duces, in little, effects both agreeable and fin- 

 ished. In the foreground of the highest garden 

 shown in the illustration a perfect use is made of 

 Statice latifolia, or, appropriately, sea-lavender. 

 Below these plants, the beauty of whose purple 

 bloom against the distant blues can be but faintly 

 imagined, one may notice little gleams of sweet 

 alyssum and, looking straight toward the sea, 

 their flowers shining against the green of the next 

 lower level, one sees delphiniums most happily in- 

 troduced into the picture. Flowers found in this 

 garden are, with others, Shasta daisies and many 

 purple and yellow Japanese irises; hedges and 

 box-trees everywhere to form enclosures, to af- 

 ford backgrounds, to give that richness of dark 

 green always peculiarly effective near the sea. 

 The photograph of this garden with its sight of 

 ocean is one of the loveliest gardening composi- 

 tions ever falling beneath my eye; I am delighted 

 that it may grace these pages (frontispiece). 

 At Swampscott, Mass., set upon a great ram- 



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