JUNE IN A SEASHORE GARDEN 



PKotographs by Mary H. Nortkend 



The fresh, bright color of the June garden rekindles new delight every season 

 and is for many the high-water mark of the gardening year with the unstinted 

 loveliness of Peony and Iris supplemented by the light grace of Lupins and a 

 multitude of minor servitors who faithfully reappear summer after summer. 

 Formal in concept, its prim beauty shielded from encroaching rock and wood- 

 land by high vineclad walls, the garden of Dr. J. H. Lancashire at Manchester, 

 Mass., reflects nothing of the tumultuous disorder of the not far distant sea. 

 Man is ever prone thus to build himself some sort of sheltered paradise and 

 sit secure within defying fate, as it were 



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