tangle of pink and white and lavendar within a sheltering wall, the 
woods a dark back-ground, and at the corners pink drapery of roses 
hanging from white posts; and then across that swept, brown beach 
to Mrs. Lane's. Up many steps to a terrace from which between 
sentinel pines we saw — I don't know whether to say ilHmitable ocean, 
or just all the sea there is. 
Mrs. Lane's gardens are beautiful, beautifully grown, and envy- 
creating. She has so many unusual, and I am afraid, unobtainable 
things — a Lychnis which was a sheet of pink; a Clematis, like Pani- 
culata, but in bloom on the first of July; a Campanula, Glomerata 
Dahurica is its proud name, which when not staked makes a dark purple 
ground cover very splendid for large beds. There are the most lovely 
Hly pools, and a great green garden with a curved edging of massed 
Pachysandra, and a vegetable garden which is a thing of beauty 
as well as utiHty where though the rows march straight, the pines 
are allowed to come in cool proximity to the naturally curving edges, 
and the service drive is a lovely curving sweep. At the. foot of all 
is a wild garden among the pines. 
We had tea, a most dehcious one, and so ended our walk along the 
shore. 
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Mrs. S. V. R. The first impression of Mrs. Crosby's place, Apple Trees, was the 
Crosby's group of charming flowers grown in pots and arranged on the broad 
Garden veranda near the front door. The gentleman who "couldn't see the 
wood for the trees" would have been hugely troubled there because he 
couldn't have seen the garden for the Garden Club. It was there, 
though, very beautiful and trim, giving an added reason for the 
election to the presidency of its mistress. 
A terrace at the side was altogether delightful with great pots 
of Plumbago and Anchusa massed against the white background of 
the house. From this terrace steps lead down to a small and extremely 
well planted garden, enclosed by a low stone wall surrnounted by a 
white picket fence. The predominating flowers were Delphiniums, 
White Dictamnns, Campanula Persicifolia, Heuchera Saguinea, white 
Peonies, Lavatera, and at the end, Carmine Pillar Roses in full bloom, 
making a gorgeous splash of color in this otherwise rather subdued 
and exquisite planting. 
Mrs. H. F. Many Garden Club members were so entranced by the 
Coolidge's house of Mrs. H. F. Coolidge that the retreating tide of members 
Garden swept them back out of the front door before they ever reached the 
terrace door at the back. They missed a view, a steep, rocky descent 
engagingly planted, a charming little walled garden set in the side 
of the hill and half filled by a grape arbor and many other gay 
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