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of trees and shrubs at the head of a low flight of brick steps. 
I his vase receives water from a spring conducted to it by a 
lead pipe out of which the water flows. 
1 he circular fountain marks the centre of the walks, which 
are bordered with flower beds filled with Roses, Columbines, 
Peonies, Poppies, Gas-plants, Pansies, and other flowering plants 
in season. 
Near by is the walled-in area known as the Open-air Theatre, 
THE PRINCESS TREE 
(PAULOWNIA IMPERIALS) 
A native of Japan so adaptable in 
habit as to justify its wider use in 
this country. The delicate beauty 
of its pale violet blossoms is never 
fully revealed except when thrown 
against a darker background of 
green 
EREMURUS ROBUSTUS 
An adequate display of a plant well known but far too 
little used; when massed, as here, it has distinct interest 
signment of huge specimen Belgian Azaleas imported in tubs 
from Europe (just before Quarantine Order 37 was issued) and 
protected from the hot summer’s sun by an open lattice of 
Hemlock laths. Some of these Azaleas are six feet across and 
were full of bloom on May 23, 1919, when I visited the place. 
North of the house are the avenues of large trees planted by 
Joshua and Samuel Peirce. Here are fine specimens of White 
Pine (Pinus strobus). Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), Bald 
Cypress (Taxodium distichum), Sweet Gum (Liquidambar 
styraciflua), Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Norway Spruce 
(Picea excelsa), Kentucky Coffee-tree (Gymnocladus cana- 
densis), Red Buckeye (Aesculus Pavia), Black Birch (Betula 
lenta), Linden (Tilia americana), and Tulip-tree (Liriodendron 
Tulipifera). At the end of this magnificent avenue of trees is a 
piece of natural woodland sloping down to the pond. A few 
large Princess-trees (Paulownia imperialis) along the edge of the 
woods were on May 23rd loaded with fragrant flowers. Near 
the corner of the old house on the lawn stands a giant Cucum- 
ber-tree (Magnolia acuminata). To the eastward of the old 
arboretum the formal borders, fountains, garden courts, and 
terraced flower borders have been laid out. One enclosed garden 
court is known as the Box garden, or Sundial garden. Another 
court is characterized bv a large terra cotta vase set in a niche 
LARGE IMPORTED AZALEAS 
These veterans of European exhibitions, fortunately brought over 
from Belgium before the war which destroyed so many of their kind, 
are probably the finest specimens on this side of the Atlantic 
a fountain playing several jets of sparkling water at one 
end. The head of an artificial pond in the English garden 
has a fine group of deciduous Cypress trees (Taxodium dis- 
tichum) with the usual knees; and just beyond, along the 
outer edge of the formal garden, the Cypress serves effectively 
as an avenue tree. 
The plantation of Longwood, as a result of its development by 
Mr. Pierre S. Du Pont, shows the successful blending of several 
distinct landscape elements; namely, the arboretum of old trees; 
the formal arrangement of flower borders, fountains, and re- 
cessed gardens; and the English garden merging into the golf 
course, which has absorbed most of the open fields of the old 
Peirce farm. 
The public is admitted to the grounds with cer- 
tain restrictions designed to maintain their beauty 
intact. It is hardly conceivable, however, that any 
visitors could be so little appreciative as to trans- 
gress against the hospitable spirit which places 
Longwood, with its wealth of plant material, old 
and new, freely at their disposal for inspection and 
enjoyment. 
