VARIOUS GARDENS 



garden, formal in design, lies farther back toward 

 the prairie. The wonder of the main garden Ues 

 in the fact that it has been most skilfully placed 

 on an axis with that noblest of American peaks. 

 Mount Tacoma. Clouds hid the mountain vision 

 on the day of my visit, but what a sensation to 

 see Mount Tacoma from one's garden ! 



To come upon this English picture, this delight- 

 ful red-brick house, its low outlines possessing much 

 of the sweetness of the ancient English manor- 

 house, with its gardens masterly in design and 

 rich with flowers — to come upon this, in the far- 

 thest Northwest, in the new country, is to find 

 a thing almost unbelievable. "And I saw in my 

 dream" — yet the dream is a reality. One re- 

 calls the beautiful house of Kipling's in "They" 

 — it is here in America, in that noble State of 

 Washington, near Tacoma. 



For the following description, full of sympathy 

 and charm, of the gardens of Glendessary, not far 

 from Santa Barbara, I am indebted to the owner 

 herself. Parenthetically may it be said here that 

 nothing the writer has ever seen in pictures has 

 so strengthened her desire to see California as 

 have these entrancing vistas full of color and of 



