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This liking must be modified, however, to what 

 my check-book will properly back up with cash. 

 Therefore, and certainly, some things will not be 

 there! My dream has not included great exotic 

 rhododendrons like those at Wellesley, nor has it 

 compassed the lovely magnolias I would be glad 

 to see blooming among these evergreens, and in 

 contrast to their sohd color. 



But I can have dogwoods and red-buds, and 

 they are going to be planted where I can see them 

 against the green of the high hedge of old arbor- 

 vitses. Then I will eventually come to see in the 

 May time a home bit of the exquisite picture that 

 I have often visited along the almost unknown 

 Conodoguinet creek, where God certainly planted 

 a garden, good enough for any Adam, in or out of 

 Eden. And nearby, also with the evergreen back- 

 ground, there must be some more of that same 

 slope of the Conodoguinet, in bits of Phlox divari- 

 cata^ Mertensia virginica, Dutchman's breeches, 

 bloodroot, May-apple and the other friends of 

 my spring rambles. Perhaps I may even compass 

 some of the great trillium, that woods aristocrat, 

 which vies with the cotton flower of the South in 

 its change of color in the same bloom, from purest 

 white to a lovely blush-pink as the days mature it. 



There will be other shrubs, of course, so that I 



