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air from border to border, and then coming to the 
shady porch and arranging the flowers in different 
vases. Lemon verbena, rose geranium and heliotrope 
she always had in abundance, so that the rooms were 
fragrant with them and there were water lilies in 
August. At first her garden was of the simplest plan 
of flower beds arranged about the house, but ten 
years before her death she made a long grassy walk 
leading around the house between ornamental trees 
and shrubs. .. . Another pet plan of hers was a roof 
garden over the laboratory. . . . It consisted of a se- 
ries of boxes put about the sides and across the roof, so 
that when the flowers were well started they joined 
each other, and you looked over a lovely mass of color 
to the blue sea and the Lynn shoré. Aunt Lizzie stud- 
ied the effect of her flower scheme quite intently till 
she arranged it to satisfy herself. Another pretty 
decoration for her porch was a glass tank in which 
she kept pond lilies, and she used nasturtium leaves, 
if she did not have lily pads. 
Two interludes of travel interrupted these years spent 
for the greater part in Cambridge and Nahant. In the 
spring of 1892 Mrs. Agassiz went with relatives to the Pa- 
cific coast — a journey of three months that was a source 
of great enjoyment to her. The still greater pleasure that 
opened before her in the autumn of 1894, after the Annex 
had been safely transformed into Radcliffe College, is best 
announced by herself in the following note. 
