BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



pany with the Wistaria. Annuals follow, and the place 

 is kept in long bloom under the careful supervision of the 

 owner. 



At The Blind, Havre de Grace, on the Chesapeake, is 

 a charming and typically Southern garden with ancient 

 Box hedges for a background, and filled with the bloom 

 of many old-fashioned hardy plants and shrubs. The 

 property of two hundred acres is partly under cultivation 

 and partly covered with Holly and ancient trees. Around 

 the gray stone mansion in springtime the place is like a 

 fairy-land, with hundreds of blossoming shrubs and fruit 

 trees. Originally the land belonged to the Stumpp family, 

 who acquired it by grant from one of the early English 

 governors. It is now in the possession of a New Yorker, 

 who keeps it as a shooting-preserve and stock-farm. 



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