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Delafield at Greenport, Long Island, the hedges of 

 plain and variegated Box are unusually fine, and the 

 paths are well laid out. Some of them are entirely 

 covered by the closing together of the two hedges 

 which are often six or seven feet in height. 



In spite of the constant assertion of the winter- 

 killing of Box in the North, the oldest Box in 



.... Anchor-shaped Flower-beds, Kingston, Rhode Island. 



the country is that at Sylvester Manor, Shelter 

 Island, New York. The estate is now owned by 

 the tenth mistress of the manor, Miss Cornelia 

 Horsford; the first mistress of the manor, Grissel 

 Sylvester, who had been Grissel Gardiner, came 

 there in 1652. It is told, and is doubtless true, that 

 she brought there the first Box plants, to make, in 

 what was then a far-away island, a semblance of her 



