In a multitude of graceful spires and mounds, hundreds of 

 specimen evergreens, planted in beds, stretch across the Garden 

 to the east. While there is dignity and stateliness in the broad 

 scale upon which the planting is conceived, and an air of strength 

 and permanence in the calm beauty which belongs to evergreens 

 as to no other type of plants, it is chiefly in the fall of light and 

 shadow, in the mingling and shading of infinitely varied tones 

 of color that lies the unique charm of the Garden. 



Irrespective of the brilliant spots of color made by the inter- 

 planting of perennials through all the beds, the dominant tone 

 of the garden is a mingling of many shades of green, gray, and 

 gold, broken in the distance by the occasional flash of a scarlet 

 Japanese Maple shining through the marshalled Cedars, and 

 beyond that the mellow gradation of soft green and yellow 

 leading to the skyline where a Purple Beech or two hangs like 

 a misty cloud upon the horizon. 



