of borders, and Irish Junipers gave notes of green where needed. 
The Roses used on the posts were Silver Moon, Dr. Van 
Fleet, Emily Grey and Christine Wright. The flower borders 
were everywhere raised Ave to six inches above the walks, and 
held in place by thin slabs of the same beautiful native stone. 
A Laurel-leaved Willow hedge, also brought from the brook-side 
which furnished the stone, had been planted around a swimming 
pool back of the Guest House. This hedge will be six to eight 
feet high and kept clipped, and will eventually be pleached over 
the walk which leads from the garden to the pool. 
The simple comfortable form-note prevails throughout the 
place — the Colonial spirit is felt always, and it was with the 
greatest reluctance that we turned away from this — a true type 
of our very best American home. R L W 
Mrs. 
Sherwin 's 
Farm at 
Mentor 
Mrs. 
Matthew 
Andrews' 
House at 
Gates ' Mills 
Mr- 
York ' s 
Garden 
Mrs. 
Gardner 's 
Wild 
Flowers 
Among the "Selected Gardens" but perched so high on a 
hill that many people missed it was Mrs. Sherwin 's farm. The 
house overlooks the deep valley of the Chagrin River and is set 
in a Cherry orchard and flanked by great Spruces and charming 
walks. A big boulder with a bird-bath hollowed in its top was 
something to make a note about. 
Like all the Cleveland gardens there was an intimate relation 
between the house and the garden that proved the rightness of 
each. You looked and wanted to hurry home to carry out some 
plan suggested by one or the other — at least you would have 
wanted to hurry home if you hadn't wanted more to stay. 
A French landscape in Ohio is unexpected, but here you 
have a French house with all its proper surroundings, allees, 
flagged and awninged terraces, and calm distant views. If we 
might have plans of these Cleveland estates so near a city yet 
so country-like and secluded, the stay-at-home members of the 
Garden Club might learn as much as those who go to the meet- 
ings — but they never could have as good a time. 
Mrs. Robert York's garden is on a green slope with an old 
spring surrounded by forest trees as its key-note. This spring 
has been "civilized" into a pool with lovely planting, and the 
vista as seen from the house is charming. Two notable achieve- 
ments in this garden are the planting of the most magnificent 
Syringas as a screen, and the design of the flagged paths in the 
formal garden which is a continuation of the green garden. 
Mrs. Gardner has a garden filled with wild flowers, 
and the way she gets them is a shining example to all Garden 
Club members. When she hears that a piece of woods is to be 
cleared for building she gets permission to dig and move to her 
own shady woods all the wild flowers that would otherwise be 
destroyed. The result is a practical and beautiful collection of 
native plants, and conservation and preservation have found 
a consistent champion. 
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