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Camden, South Carolina, riders on horseback can- 

 not be seen nor see over it. New England towns 

 seldom show such growth of Box ; but in Hingham, 

 Massachusetts, at the home of Mrs. Robbins, author 

 of that charming book, The Rescue of an Old Place, 



Garden at Tudor Place. 



there is a Box bower, with walls of Box fifteen feet 

 in height. These walls were originally the edgings 

 of a flower bed on the " Old Place." Read Dr. 

 John Brown's charming account of the Box bower 

 of the " Queen's Maries." 



Box grows on Long Island with great vigor. At 

 Brecknock Hall, the family residence of Mrs. Albert 



