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Farmingtcn, Conn. 



BOUT twelve years ago this was a bare hilltop. If .full- 

 grown trees could be successfully moved to the site, it 

 would then be the choicest location in the region for 

 the residence. 



To secure these fine old trees required long and 

 careful search over a radius of fully fifteen iiiiles. As a matter of fact, 

 three years passed before the entire planting was finished. 



Only such trees were used as. would fit perfectly into the picture 

 the owner had in mind, arching over the roofs and doorways, or fram- 

 ing a view from the windows ; old Apple trees hovering over the 

 garden walls and farm lanes, and dignified Maples or broad Oaks 

 and Pines in the corners of the pasture; velvety old Boxwoods nest- 

 ling under the eaves. 



. Such is the perfectioii and harmony of the composition, you would 

 now declare it the growth of half a century. 



The initial sketch shows a large Elm moved for Mrs. Elliott F. 

 Shepard. Olmsted Bros., Landscape Architects. 



