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means asters and goldenrod, but we vary it with the white snake- 

 root and the Jerusalem artichoke; while the barberry sprays and 

 bitter-sweet and sea-buckthorn and wychhazel come with the late 

 October sunshine. When the first frosts drive the tender plants 

 indoors they are brought into the dog-trot, now glassed in. The 

 jasmine is trained over the rough walls, the osmanthus and cryp- 

 tomeria stand on guard in the corners, and masses of chrysanthe- 

 mums, yellow and white and mauve and pink, which have been 

 ripening in the green-house all summer, make us forget that the 

 leaves are falling and snow is near. 



Along both the north and the south sides of the house we built 

 open brick terraces fourteen feet wide, so that we have a variety 

 of outdoor rooms for all sorts of weather. The south terrace is 

 finished with a low split-boulder Avail, one hundred and twenty feet 

 in length; the north terrace is even with the lawn and with the 

 house too, so it is like stepping from one room to another when we 

 open any of the seventeen doors leading to the outer world! 



Under each group of windows is built on the house a simple and 

 practical flower box, eighteen inches wide and ten inches deep on 

 the outside. Those on the south terrace are filled with tulips in the 

 early Spring, principally yellow ones to repeat the color of the jon- 

 quils in sunny masses under the leafless shrubs. A huge group of 

 forsythias carries the yellow almost to the water's edge, and when 

 the goldfinch darts among its radiant branches and the dandelion 



glows in every corner, we say, "This is the most beautiful season 



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