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royal ferns and feather ferns vary the plantation. North 

 America has a noble assortment of ferns, and to these it 

 is possible to add a number acclimated from Japan. 



In gathering up the threads of thought about gardens, 

 it seems as if a well-made garden resembles an embroid- 

 ered fabric in which every inch has been utilized for 

 design and every possibility touched upon. Such is the 

 thought conveyed by old gardens where the stone walls, 

 the stepping stones, and the ascending ways are made 

 the support or background of "flowers in the crannied 

 wall." Alpine plants cling to ledges, violas look from 

 nooks where a handful of earth has given the roots 

 encouragement, the stonecrops and rockfoils make velvet 

 on the balustrades, and Alpine toadflax fringes graveled 

 paths. 



The creeper-shaded walk under the pergola is a natural 

 part of the scheme. It is not conscious art, nor an arched 

 way conspicuous in the plan, but a trellis festooned with 

 grape vines, Banksian roses, wistaria, clematis, honey- 

 suckle, passion flowers on their lacey vines, flame-red 

 trumpet flowers, or other climbers which have found 

 support. The springing arches over parting ways admit- 

 ting from one fragrant plantation to another are devices 

 for holding the great design in unity, and seem to be 

 there by chance for the adventures of convolvulus, 



