LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



up and down just as Nature under favorable 

 conditions would do it, but with just a touch of 

 art. These beds, moreover, consist of masses 

 of single kinds of rhododendrons, a large group 

 of red here, a mass of purple there, the whites 

 carefully kept where they would blend well from 

 purple into red. Some beds, again, were laid 

 out all of one kind. Altogether there may be 

 fifteen or twenty varieties. It should be said that 

 the climatic conditions at Sag Harbor are favor- 

 able to rhododendrons. Some of these groups 

 surround the elms, and the eye is led in and out 

 among them in a way that tends to magnify the 

 area of the grounds. The large size of the house 

 made it necessary to give the grounds as extended 

 an effect as possible. 



The lawns were sown with Kentucky blue- 

 grass and have now developed into fine turf 

 without further fertilization than the harrowing 

 into the sandy soil of a liberal quantity of thor- 

 oughly decayed humus. 



In a corner of the place in the rear, to one side, 

 and shut off by the lattice work of a clothes- 

 drying ground, is a vegetable garden containing 

 asparagus and strawberry beds, raspberries, black- 

 berries, and the usual vegetables for the daily 

 use of the house. Across the extreme rear of the 

 place is a road arranged for service purposes in 

 connection with the garden, outbuildings, and 

 kitchen. 



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