tions of trees and flowers. In this garden of formal design tall 
Evergreen hedges have been used with telling effect, dividing 
the space into a series of bays, in which Canterbury Bells, Sweet 
"William, Delphinium, Anchusa and Columbine spread their gay 
colors against the dark walls. The likeness to a magic garden, 
with its air of secrecy and continual promise of some surprise 
waiting just 'round the next turn, was fulfilled when we came 
upon a low picket fence painted white, against which bloomed a 
tidy row of Canterbury Bells, guarding the approach to a 
thatched cottage, whose latticed windows peeped out through 
a tangle of Honeysuckle and climbing Koses. Surely it was 
here that Goldilocks set down her basket of wild Strawberries 
and rested in Little Bear's bed and found it so much to her lik- 
ing. To those of us whose garden enthusiasms include vegetables 
as well as flowers, it was interesting to find the idea of dividing 
the planting space into square divisions, carried out in a border 
running parallel to a high brick wall. At intervals of six or 
eight feet espalier fruit trees divided this into a series of 
"stalls," in which peas and spinach and lettuce throve amazing- 
ly and with most delightful effect. 
From Mrs. Briggs', the motor cavalcade, each windshield 
marked with the device adopted by the hostess Clubs — a flower- 
filled basket with the words Garden Club — swept along tree 
bordered avenues to Mrs. Bickn ell's garden. Here, between the 
house and the road, yet so sheltered by thick plantings of 
Khododendrons and Conifers as to give absolute privacy, we 
found a tiny ravine. Beginning in a natural bowl the garden 
ran at varying levels between two sharp knolls, broadening at 
last into a generous kitchen garden from which a path led 
gradually around the hill at our right back to the high land 
about the house. A Rose garden filled the bowl, to which low 
walls gave a sense of greater depth, and on them Silver Moon 
and Doctor Van. Fleet flung their gracious garlands. Shallow 
steps led to a lower division of the garden, the center of which 
was filled with a most natural looking pool, fringed with Iris, 
Myosotis, "Money" and many rock plants. Against the rising 
walls of the cliff grew hardy perennials and above them, hanging 
high over our heads, Laurels and Azaleas, with here and there a 
young Pine or Juniper. Once again we went down several steps 
from this delicious walled retreat, to find ourselves in a broad 
grape arbor encircling the kitchen garden where rows of Lark- 
spur and Poppies rubbed shoulders with spinach and frugal 
beans and a host of sturdy Zinnias flanked the path. Far below 
us lay the city, its spires and chimneys rising against the lake. 
At our right a path led through a thicket of wild green things 
up the knoll to the house. One could not but be impressed by 
the absolute fitness of the garden to the site. The subtle hand of 
the craftsman had left no trace. One felt that spade and barrow 
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