From the top of the steps which descend to the garden from 

 York Road, one looks along the south wall of the office flanked 

 with majestic columns of Red Cedars. At the base of the 

 building, and between the trees, grow shining Hollies and 

 small groups of Evergreen Thorns whose berries are pretty 

 and bright in the dark days of winter. 



For summer beauty the flowers of Abelia grandiflora 

 gleam against the blue-gray foliage of Pfitzer's Juniper and the 

 Purple Spreading Juniper which we call "depressa plumosa/ 1 

 To the right, as one descends the steps to the garden, the 

 bank along York Road is clothed with the varied green of many 

 shrubs. The golden bells of Forsythia make 

 this a dell of beauty before the spring is fairly 

 open; and following quickly come 

 the pink and white Dogwoods, 

 Thorn blossoms and the white 

 wreaths of various Spireas. Moun- 

 tain Laurel and Rhododendron con- 

 tinue the display, and the almost 

 everbloommg Abelia carries on un- 

 til late autumn when the Bitter- 

 sweet scatters its scarlet-orange 

 berries up the slope. 



