until within six feet of the entrance to the tea- 

 house, where a platform of field-stone was made. 

 The stepping stone pathway was only three feet 

 wide, the two borders, one each side of the path- 

 way, were thirty inches wide. The sod was all 

 removed and the long beds prepared as for a per- 

 ennial border, deeply dug and well fertilized. 

 Splendidly uniform Yucca plants of large size 

 were spaced with minute exactness, two feet 

 apart, directly in the center of each border. At 

 each side of the borders strong roots of White 

 Day Lilies were planted each root given twelve 

 inches for its very own. Hardy ferns with slen- 

 der fronds thriving in half or full sun. Maid- 

 enhair Ferns of all heights, and Summer Hya- 

 cinths Candicans and St. Bruno Lilies ( Antheri- 

 cuzn) and white Speciosum Lilies Alba. In late 

 May and early June the St. Bruno lilies were a 

 cloud of white. In June and July the Yuccas 

 bloomed. Superb flower rockets nearly five feet 



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