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A general view of the garden 
border about eight hundred feet long, backed by shrubbery 
and terminating in two circles twenty-five feet in diameter, 
forming a wide entrance to the summer house. 
The herbaceous border is edged twice yearly. Five 
hundred white pansies were planted the first of April. 
These were replaced in June by five hundred white petunias, 
thus keeping an unbroken edging until frost. 
Going farther along the northern slope, and still backed 
The silver birches and the lake 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1911 
by shrubs, we come to two 
cone-shaped beds separated 
by a grass path. One bed is 
planted with Cnothera 
Youngii, and the other bed 
with Delphinium Chinensis, 
each bed in turn planted with 
outdoor Chrysanthemums for 
fall bloom. Coming down the 
slope and toward the lower 
garden is a conifer bed 
seventy feet long by forty 
feet wide, dotted with King 
Humbert canna and edged 
with Pennisetum longistylum. 
Following the slope of the 
lawn from the summer house 
to the house proper and down 
a flight of ten steps, we enter 
a lawn extending to the 
piazza and enclosed by a 
three-foot terrace wall. The 
top of this wall is decorated 
with large pans of Phyllis 
geranium at intervals of ten 
feet.- Below the wall sama 
formal border three feet 
wide, consisting of three rows 
of bedding plants. The outer 
row is Centaurea candidis- 
sima, the middle row Begonia 
Erfordi, and the third row standard heliotrope alternating 
with abutilon. ‘The two circles mentioned were planted in 
April with annual silene, with myosotis used as an edging. 
In June the silene was replaced with Bar Har- 
bor Beauty Petunia, and the myosotis with Ageratum 
Stella Gurney. In the spring the circles had for 
a background Digitalis purpurea alba. These are 
now replaced by Richard Wallace canna. 
The lower garden con- 
sists first of a series of ob- 
long squares running east 
and west, and flanked on the 
northern side by the early 
vegetable garden, and on the 
southern side by herbaceous 
borders. The paths, how- 
ever, connect beyond the 
squares and rose garden, 
and commence to curve, serv- 
ing to form the English 
garden, rockery, alpine and 
water garden, and then con- 
tinue to the borders of the 
Ipswich River. The space 
occupied by these gardens 
was originally covered with 
water and an apparently end- 
less depth of black mud. 
A flight of rustic steps 
conducts one to the first 
square, which is planted prin- 
cipally with perennial vege- 
tables, such as asparagus, 
sea kale, globe artichokes, 
rhubarb, etc. The whole 
square is edged with a 
double row of white ver- 
benas. The second square is 
planted with annual vege- 
