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A COLONIAL GARDEN 



This style of garden was common in colonial days when 

 cur artistic and literary ideals were English. In those days of 

 our callow national youth, Young and Pollock and Tupper 

 were regarded as great poets, and the mechanical versification 

 of Pope sounded like real poetry. We had not yet evolved 

 Walt Whitman and the naturo-idealistic school of writers of 

 which he is the typical representative; nor even to this day 

 have we evolved ourselves to the point of appreciating 

 Whitman. 



In this garden the beds are hedged with Boxwood and 

 each contains a family of plants. In one of them is a tea- 

 house curtained with vines and screened with a high hedge. 

 The grounds at Mt. Vernon were laid out in this fashion, 

 Washington was a very rich man for his time, and being a 

 landed aristocrat as well as aristocratic in temperament and 

 training he naturally developed an estate patterned after the 

 English models, as were all the best gardens in Virginia and 

 the Carolinas at that period. Some of them are still in a good 

 state of preseravtion. 



A DISAPPEARING WALK IN A VALLEY 



The charm of a disappearing walk lies in its suggestive- 

 ness. It gives a garden a sort of reserved power, and we feel 

 that the view before us is only a foretaste of many hidden 

 beauties beyond. The shrubbery detail at the curve serves as 

 a masking bed to hide but only half conceal certain garden 

 features that are in reserve. After all, gardens are a great 

 deal like people in the way they impress us. It is the re- 

 served power and latent potentialities in men that we admire. 

 The moment we learn a man's limitations our interest in that 

 man's personality is lost. And so a garden with no sugges- 

 tion or hint of reserved power is absolutely without interest. 



The beautiful setting in this picture is made chiefly of 

 perennials — Phlox, Paeonies, Iris, Shasta Daisies, Pyrethrum, 

 and Boltonia. The shrubs are Spiraeas, Berberis, Viburnum, 

 Rosa Rugosa, and Baby Rambler Roses. The Rosa Rugosa 

 is a Japanese variety of roses with large, clean, crinkled leaves, 

 and the blossoms are followed by huge hips of glossy red. 



Plate 82. A Dlsai>itenriug' Walk iu a Valley 



