YARMOUTH GARDENS. 



cise what is really a place of many 

 attractions, is the numerous walks and 

 drives, which make gravel almost more 

 conspicuous than greensward, and an old 

 fashioned habit of raising mounds over 

 the graves instead of simply marking 

 with a low head and foot stone, which 

 makes it such a difficulty to keep the 

 lawn well mown. Another thing that 

 reminds one of English conditions is 

 the English ivy which also grows here 

 most luxuriantly. Climbers are in com- 

 mon use here, the Japan ivy on the 



year for wood, and still their health and 

 vigor is not impaired. Our frontispiece 

 shows this road, with Yarmouth in the 

 distance and Pond Lake on the right, 

 a fresh water lake only separated by a 

 few feet at one end from the salt waters 

 of the great Atlantic. 



Any mention of Yarmouth from a 

 horticultural standpoint would be in- 

 complete without some reference to Mr. 

 Charles E Brown, a graduate of Har- 

 vard and one of Yarmouth's most public 

 spirited citizens. He received us with 



Fig. 1699. — Yarmouth Harbor, Showing Landing of D.A.R. Steamer, and the 

 old Cemetery in the Foreground. 



churches, and in addition the honey- 

 suckle, the climbing rose, and the Vir- 

 ginia creeper on the houses. 



The trees used in the streets are hard 

 and soft maples, Sycamore maples, elms, 

 beeches, Balm of Gilead, Silver poplars, 

 etc., and here and there a fine hawthorn, 

 allowed to develop its full size and beauty. 



Along the old road from Yarmouth to 

 Hebon numerous old Pollard willows 

 are growing, planted a century ago by 

 the French. The tops are cut year after 



that extreme cordiality so common 

 among horticulturists and others of con- 

 genial tastes, and lost little time in 

 making us acquainted with his garden, 

 which is well described by the old Latin 

 phrase, " multum in parvo." Almost 

 every apple tree has several varieties top 

 grafted upon it, and over seventy varie- 

 ties have in this way been tested and 

 reported on for Southern Nova Scotia. 

 He finds the following worthy of plant- 

 ing, viz., Duchess, Primate, Keswick 



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