AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



shell in bronze, forming the chariot, in which stands the driver of a pair of white marble sea 

 horses. White marble sea nymphs are playing in the water. On the front of the shell is an 

 octopus, and in the top of this is set a sheet of glass. The inner and outer walls of the shell 

 are sufficiently wide to allow for an electrical attachment and lamps, which, when lighted with 

 the colored lights, throw the color through a circle of many small jets. The effect is enhanced 

 by six jets of water falling on the central group. 



Mrs. John L. Gardner's Garden, Brookline, Massachusetts. 



Mrs. John L. Gardner's garden, in Brookline, Massachusetts, is the result of twenty 

 years of continuous growth and cultivation under one owner. This fact is of special interest, 

 for most of the fine gardens of our time have been created in a few months or in a year or 

 two, and represent a definite idea carried to realization within a very brief period. Gardening 

 art, as it is now understood, was scarcely known in America when Mrs. Gardner began the 

 arrangement of her beautiful grounds, and her garden, therefore, has been slowly evolved, 

 although long ago brought to its present high state of cultivation. 



The estate is a considerable one, comprising about forty acres. The intelligent care 

 that has been lavished on it for so many years has long since made it one of the "show" places 



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THE GARDEN OF MRS. JOHN L. GARDNER. 



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