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into lawns, and the approach had been embroidered with clusters 

 of gold and silver hollies, bays, laurels and flowering plants. At 

 the entrance of the house stood beautiful magnolias, and around 

 the columns twined rare hardy climbers, among them, the quick- 

 growing, fine foliaged Periploca graeca. On the southerly side, 

 the MaurancUa Bardayana exhibited the astonishing growth 

 of about thirty feet during the season. Other hardy climbing 

 plants were scattered about, all in excellent condition. The old 

 beds of rhododendrons, kalmias, azaleas, and andromedas were as 

 ample as ever ; and new plantations of new varieties and new 

 masses of sub-tropicals had been introduced. Clumps of the sweet- 

 scented Daphne Cneorum, whose pink flowers and far-stretching 

 procumbent shoots are so well fitted for a rock plant, were ob- 

 served. Also, the Ithododendron dauricum, which blooms early 

 with the Crocus, and the Anemone jcqyonica, which displaj's its 

 pink flowers late in the fall. Near a large fountain, lately made, 

 stood an Aralia canescens, twelve feet high, with large fern-like 

 fronds, the growth of only four or five months, this hardy plant 

 being annually cut to the ground. A fine specimen of Picea cil- 

 icica, hardy and compact, and one of the best of the evergreens, was 

 also seen. The Rhododendrons and Kalmias, which were nearly 

 despaired of in the spring, were found fresh and green, showing 

 abundant buds, well set and full, in spite of the trying winter of 

 1871 and '72. 



But the most useful, expensive and striking of all the improve- 

 ments made since the award of the Hunnewell Prize, consists of 

 the Nkw Water Wokks, whereby an abundant supply of spring- 

 water is raised more than one hundred and twenty feet above the 

 river level, and made to supply the house, stables, greenhouses and 

 graperies, besides the fountains, and an "over-flow brook" from 

 the waste. The whole, although too costly for men of moderate 

 means, is nevertheless a perfectly simple and successful operation. 



A windmill, built by the Continental Windmill Co., of New York, 

 with sails twenty-five feet in diameter, standing about forty feet 

 from the ground, is placed near the river, working a pump which 

 draws about a pailful of water at every stroke, and forces it through 

 a three inch pii)c, about seven hundred feet, to a stand pipe placed 

 on ground nearly seventy feet above the spring. This stand pipe, 

 made of wrought iron, tb.ree feet and a half in diameter, rises 

 about sixty feet from its base, and is filled by the pump, the over 



