GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN. 



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ORIENTAI- POPPY. 



(pAPAVEa b;5acteatum. ) 



most unique and charmiug effects in the entire garden. The 



broad, straight paths that run past all these flowers, and 



the grass plat and croquet ground 



make a worthy frame for our 



border, and everywhere the eye 



meets, at almost any season of the 



year, objects of interest. 



This place has, therefore, an 

 attraction that is related some- 

 what to the chai-m grandmother's 

 garden possessed for us in early 

 days. There is, first, the neatness and perfect keeping 

 that suits the level space adjoining a terrace and the 

 architectural lines of a house, and then there is all the 



profusion, and far more than the 

 variety, that characterized the floral 

 treasures of the old-fashioned exam- 

 ple. More than that, we have indi- 

 viduality of beauty, which is, in one 

 sense, the best of all beauty, fostered 

 in the highest degree. One's eco- 

 nomical instincts are satisfied with 

 the idea of possessing flowers that 

 need no re-setting year by year, and 

 one's instinct for beauty can certainly ask for no more 

 abundant feast than is here spread out. 



JAPAN IRIS. 



(iRia IC«MPFERI.) 



