A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



THis walk is some five feet in width and runs 

 from east to west. Some years ago word came 

 to me concerning the interesting manner in 

 which grapes were grown in low festoons along the 

 walks of certain Lenox kitchen-gardens; where- 

 fore, lacking other place for grapes, and thinking 

 that the little decoration of such vines might not 

 be out of place here, I set to the south of this walk 

 and only ten inches from it a number of two-foot 

 iron posts nine feet apart, painted dark green 

 and connected by drooping chains. Every other 

 length between posts now has its grape: Caco — 

 the fine new cross between Catawba and Concord 

 — for a reddish sort, and Niagara for the greenish 

 color. Grape leaves are allowed to grow only 

 scantily on these low vines, as too many leaves 

 would obscure the effect of line and form. 



To the north of this walk, throughout its length, 

 grows a line of Thunberg's barberry, and some- 

 time I intend to replace these by Wilson's, or 

 some one of the new cotoneasters. These take a 

 space, brick-edged on the sides and ends, away 

 from the walk, of about six by sixty feet, whereas 

 the space of open ground under the grapes across 

 the walk is only two feet wide, with grass at its 

 southernmost boundary. Below both gi-apes and 



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