OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



of seven years the orchard belongs to the owner of the 

 land. It is only about ten years since experimental 

 work of this character was begun, and more orchards 

 are being set out each season. Apples and cherries of 

 different varieties are being tested on our lake but as 

 the work is only eighteen months old, conclusions can- 

 not yet be drawn. This experimental orchard is of 

 great interest and value not only to the owner and his 

 immediate neighbors, but to the entire community in 

 which it is placed. 



Not only fruit but flowers for cutting are grown in 

 this upper garden ; long allies of sweet peas, big clumps 

 of peonies, wide tracts of lilies-of-the-valley, high 

 growths of dahlias, variegated sweet williams, 

 Achillea the pearl, and that huge, yellow daisy-like 

 flower staggering under the heathenish name of 

 Buphthalmum speciosum! Boltonias both pink and 

 white, and the haughty "Miss Mellish" sunflower stand 

 before the high grape screen with monkshood, phlox, 

 and marigold. 



Recently we have adopted a dainty stranger from 



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