BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



ing over the large space is all balanced in predominating 

 colors of rose, lavender, white, and palest yellow. Gray 

 foliage and white flowers are freely used, and through the 

 entire summer there is not one week when the whole gar- 

 den is not gay with flowers from June until frost. 



To the northeast of Alma is the lovely garden at Gar- 

 ra-tigh, where Daffodils bloom, as in Alma, three weeks 

 later than near the city of New York. Bay City is in the 

 latitude of Portland, Maine, and central Oregon. This 

 attractive garden shows the effective combination of 

 flowers and trees so well arranged that the trees are not 

 detrimental to the vigor of the plants, and the sunny 

 garden space is doubly radiant by contrast, lying within 

 the trees' encircling shadows. Garra-tigh is the Gaelic for 

 House with the Garden. 



Near Detroit, at Fairlawn, Grosse Pointe Shores, on 

 Lake St. Clair, where the country is flat and fertile, there 

 is another delightful place of interest noted for the 

 abundance of flowers covering several acres of land. The 

 accompanying photograph was made in early September, 

 when the best of the bloom had passed. In June and 

 July the place is a glory with Lilies, Columbine, and Del- 

 phinium that are counted in hundreds, and earlier there 

 are Tulips and Daffodils by the thousands. Behind the 

 broad borders that edge the walks vegetables grow in great 

 quantities. Early Tulips come the first week of May, 

 late Tulips about May 20. Climate and soil combine to 

 simplify the gardening tasks in this productive country. 



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