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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Decembe: 



1914 



sedulously furthers his father's maturing 

 plans. Our code of precedure (if we can 

 be said to have any) can be summed up by 

 "After me the deluge." Division is the 

 general fate of our large places, and often 

 these woodlands and gardens are not en- 

 joyed in the youth of the owner but come 

 rather late in life as a reward of long in- 

 dustry. I know of many individuals who 

 are building beautiful homes in their 

 "Indian Summer" and have only a short 

 few years for the equipment of them— 

 must we then discard the quick growers in 

 preference to watching and waiting for 

 cedars of Lebanon and oaks of Bashan 

 that will never reward us? 



We must have a quick effect — let us say 

 in the next three or four years. So we 

 return to the maligned poplar and privet — 

 God bless them! I hold that the material 



Scenes in a Garden at Bryn Mawr, Penna., Taken Three Years After the Building of 



