VARIOUS GARDENS 



gola covered with berried matrimony-vine occurs 

 a descent of a few steps into a long pleached walk 

 of apple-trees running through the kitchen garden. 

 In places the steep balustrades leading from the 

 first to the second terraces are accented by the 

 use of dwarf apple-trees in pots. These were in 

 fruit when I saw them, and the shining red globes 

 in the green leaves against that Italianesque wall 

 of white were again good to see. Italian gourds 

 hanging through roofs of light pavilions and 

 against trellises showed a fine use of what to me 

 was a new horticultural subject, physalis, the 

 Chinese lantern plant, with its vermilion fruit 

 fighting the borders against the house on the up- 

 per terrace, and higher up its color was repeated 

 by festoons of scarlet peppers and tomatoes hung 

 with careless art against the plastered wall. Ac- 

 tinidia arguta, the fine creeper from Japan, and 

 our native bittersweet were in evidence here, very 

 much thinned as to branches but full of fruit. 

 The garden proper at Fernbrook Farm has been 

 built on a bit of level and projecting ground be- 

 fore and to the left of the entrance front of the 

 house. This is an oblong hedged garden planted 

 gayly in long narrow beds with delphiniums, roses, 

 and very fine scabiosas. At the garden's end 



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