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air from border to border, and then coming to the 

 shady porch and arranging the flowers in different 

 vases. Lemon verbena, rose geranium and heliotrope 

 she always had in abundance, so that the rooms were 

 fragrant with them and there were water lilies in 

 August. At first her garden was of the simplest plan 

 of flower beds arranged about the house, but ten 

 years before her death she made a long grassy walk 

 leading around the house between ornamental trees 

 and shrubs. . . . Another pet plan of hers was a roof 

 garden over the laboratory. ... It consisted of a se- 

 ries of boxes put about the sides and across the roof, so 

 that when the flowers were well started they joined 

 each other, and you looked over a lovely mass of color 

 to the blue sea and the Lynn shore. Aunt Lizzie stud- 

 ied the effect of her flower scheme quite intently till 

 she arranged it to satisfy herself. Another pretty 

 decoration for her porch was a glass tank in which 

 she kept pond lilies, and she used nasturtium leaves, 

 if she did not have lily pads. 



Two interludes of travel interrupted these years spent 

 for the greater part in Cambridge and Nahant. In the 

 spring of 1892 Mrs. Agassiz went with relatives to the Pa- 

 cific coast a journey of three months that was a source 

 of great enjoyment to her. The still greater pleasure that 

 opened before her in the autumn of 1894, after the Annex 

 had been safely transformed into Radcliffe College, is best 

 announced by herself in the following note. 



