THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



street of residence, Elm Street, begins a gently 

 winding westerly ascent to become an open high- 

 road from one to another of the several farming 

 and manufacturing villages that use the water- 

 power of Mill River. But while it is still a street 

 there runs from it southerly at a right angle a 

 straight bit of avenue some three hundred yards 

 long — an exceptional length of unbent street for 

 Northampton. This short avenue ends at an- 

 other, still shorter, lying square across its foot 

 within some seventy yards of that suddenly fall- 

 ing wooded and broken ground where Mill River 

 loiters through Paradise. The strip of land 

 between the woods and this last street is taken 

 up by half a dozen dwellings of modest dignity, 

 whose front shade-trees, being on the southerly 

 side, have been placed not on the sidewalk's 

 roadside edge but on the side next the dwellings 

 and close within their line of private ownership: 

 red, white and post-oaks set there by the pres- 

 ent writer when he named the street "Dryads' 

 Green." They are now twenty-one years old 

 and give a good shade which actually falls where 

 it is wanted — upon the sidewalk. 



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