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the salt spray drives over tlie whole of Nahant ; that 

 until Mr. Tudor began his improvements, not even a 

 bush grew naturally on the whole of its area ; and 

 that the east winds which blew from the Atlantic in 

 the spring are sufficient to render all gardening pos- 

 sibilities in the usual way nearly as chimerical as cul 

 tivating the volcanoes of the moon. Mr. Tudor's 

 residence there, now, is a curious and striking iUustra- 

 tion of the triumph of art over nature. 



" Of course, even the idea of a place worthy of the 

 name of a garden in this bald, sea girt cape, was out 

 of the question, unless some mode of overcoming the 

 violence of the gales and the bad effect of the salt 

 spray could be devised. The plan Mr. Tudor has 

 adopted is, we believe, original with him, and is at 

 once extremely simple and perfectly effective. 



" It consiBts merely of two, or at most three parallel 

 rows of high open fences, made of rough slats or 

 palings, nailed in the common vertical manner, about 

 three inches wide, and a space of a couple of inches 

 left between them. These paling fences are about 

 16 feet high, and usually form a double row (on the 

 most exposed side, a triple row) round the whole 

 garden. The distance between tliat on the outer 

 boundary and the next interior one is about four feet. 

 Tlie garden is also intersected here and there by tall 



