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House & Garden's 



THE CHARM OF OLD BOXWOOD 



Boxwood has been called the aristocrat of 

 shrubs. Certainly it has the mellow cliarm 

 thai one associates with an old aristocrat. 

 We associate it with the old-fashioned 

 garden. Today it is in constant demand 

 for gizing dark, low accents to a lawn or, 

 05 in this instance, for helping to recon- 

 struct the atmosphere of a country resi- 



dence in the Georgian style. Old boxwood 

 commands the high price commensurate 

 with its scarcity, but into many gardens, 

 where price is not considered, whole hedges 

 and plantings of box are moved from old 

 gardens. The box planting here is on the 

 place of Mrs. J. W. Harriman, at Brooks- 

 ville, L. I. Alfred C. Bossom, architect 



