BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



author of "Hardy Garden" books. Two photographs, 

 not hitherto published, must alone represent the acres of 

 bloom on this interesting place. In describing it, eight 

 gardens must be considered rather than the garden. The 

 Evergreen Garden (shown here), the May Flowering 

 Hillside, the Lily and Iris Garden, the Pool Garden, the 

 Perennial Garden, the Cedar Walk, the Vegetable Garden, 

 bordered with flowers, and the Rose Garden. A rare 

 treat for garden lovers who visit there by special arrange- 

 ment. 



At Ridgeland Farm, in Westchester County, the owner 

 has shown that the smallest garden possible when fitted to 

 artistic surroundings and filled with harmonious bloom can, 

 as a garden and as a picture, satisfy our craving for the 

 beautiful quite as completely as a subject on a much larger 

 scale. This fair little plot, with its brick paths and gay 

 blossoms, continues in bloom for several months, which, in 

 spite of narrow beds, is always possible in a well-planned 

 and carefully tended garden. 



New York includes within its borders the climate of all 

 the New England States, and, besides, the atmosphere of 

 its lake shores and the milder sea climate of New York 

 City and Long Island. Between the high altitudes of the 

 Adirondacks on the north and the sea-level of Long Island 

 on the south there is a difference of nearly four weeks in 

 the opening of spring. Within a forty-mile radius of New 

 York City and westward in the same latitude Daffodils 

 appear about April 15; early Tulips and Phlox divaricata 



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