AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



THE SUN-DIAL. 



hedges, enclosing shruljs and plants of great variety. It is not the least remarkable charac- 

 teristic of this very interesting garden that, save the bay trees and the annuals — and of the 

 latter there are a plenty — it is planted throughout with hardy American shrubs, or with those 

 of foreign origin that flourish well in this climate. Many varieties of box and cypress have 

 been used here, and in a most effective way. The annuals give the color notes that are V)Oth 

 abundant and beautiful. Everything like carpet gardening has been avoided, and the annuals 

 planted for effect of color only— great masses of bloom and foliage, splendid in their massing, 

 yet the simplest method, and the one which yields the best results. 



This formal garden on this single terrace is so large in size, and has reahzed so 

 completely the purpose of its designer, that, were there nothing else, the garden would still 

 have great interest. But it is the other terraces — there are nine in all — which give the 

 distinctive character to this estate. Above the formal garden comes the kitchen garden. 

 In most estates these two would be quite widely separated, possibly by lawns and paths, 

 certainly by green hedges, which would hide the homely kitchen garden from its brilliant 

 neighbor. But in the present case there was no room for th^'s great surface development; 

 nor, indeed, was there necessity for it; for the terraces supphed ample room for Ijoth gardens 



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