The Garden Magazine, May, 1920 
165 
Photo-© by Trustees of Ropes Memorial 
THE GAY FLOWER-GARDEN 
OF AN OLD SALEM MANSION 
Especially provided for was the garden when the two Misses Ropes 
who were the last of their line, wishing to preserve intact the splendid 
example of a Colonial home, fully furnished and “lived in” as theirs 
was, willed the Ropes Mansion to the public, together with a fund for 
its maintenance; and though the present garden is modern, its prim 
beds of annuals, beautifully kept, with the backing of brick wall and 
shrubs, are redolent of the somewhat formal elegance of Colonial days 
