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tlie salt spray drives over the whole of ISriihant; tliat 

 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 sj^ring are sufficient to render all gardening pos- 

 sibilities in the usual w^ay nearly as chimerical as cul 

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

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

 tioii 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 tlie gales and the bad effect of the salt 

 spray could be devised. The plan Mr. Tudor has 

 adopted is, we believe, original with him, amX/ is at 

 once extremely simple and perfectly effecti^. ^ J . 

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" It conb.sts 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 

 IG 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 



