June, 1911 
tables, and is bordered on 
two sides with yellow gail- 
lardias and on the remaining 
two sides with Verbena 
venosa. 
The third square com- 
mences with the greenhouse, 
which is used for raising an- 
nuals and bedding plants, 
followed by a crop of Eng- 
lish forcing melons. The 
remainder of the square is 
taken up with dwarf fruit 
trees and bush fruits, flanked 
on one side with a row of 
trained espaliers, and on the 
other side _ with salvia 
Zurich, the end being 
planted with blue asters. 
The fourth square is 
planted entirely with the dif- 
ferent Brassicas, following 
the strawberry crop, and is 
bordered on the sides with 
salvia Zurich, pink asters, 
mixed zinnias, and Celosia 
plumosa. 
The fifth square com- 
mences with a pergola, coy- 
ered with grapevines. 
Then follow the different summer vegetables. It is flanked 
on the different sides with a row of espaliers, herbaceous 
border, and cosmos. 
The sixth square is planted with strawberries for next 
year’s fruiting, and is enclosed with cosmos, Salvia farinacea, 
Viscaria and the herbaceous border. 
The herbaceous border on the south side is arranged to 
match that which flanks the fifth and sixth squares, the 
gravel path between the two borders being four hundred 
feet long. One hundred feet 
of this path is covered with 
a newly built pergola over- 
grown with climbing roses. 
The rose garden consists 
of one thousand hybrid teas, 
which are planted in three- 
foot beds, cut out of grass in 
scroll form, and extending 
entirely across the garden at 
the end of the square. Across 
the broad path from the 
rose garden are four formal 
beds, the first a carpet of 
dwarf scarlet verbena edged 
with Sedum carnea, and 
dotted with abutilon and 
violet petunias trained as 
standards. The second bed 
shows a carpet of alyssum 
edged with Alternanthera 
rubra and dotted with crim- 
son geraniums and Coleus 
Golden Bedder. The third 
has a carpet of Mesembryan- 
themum, edged with 
Sedum carnea, and dotted 
with pink geraniums and 
iresine. The fourth shows 
A Weaepet. of ,forenia; 
edged with yellow Alter- 
nanthera and _ dotted 
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The rockery in the garden 
with snow-storm petunia and Champaepeuce discantha. 
The remainder of the beds which complete the English 
garden are first a flanking bed, one hundred feet long, car- 
peted with blue verbenas, edged with dwarf white petunias, 
and dotted with Dantura Wrightti. A second bed, thirty 
feet in extent, is planted with tall yellow and edged with 
dwarf yellow Antirrhinum and dotted with King Humbert 
canna. A third bed, seventy feet in extent, is carpeted with 
orange gaillardias, edged with orange nemesia, and 
One of the garden walks 
