Mrs. On the tqp of one of the high hills overlooking the town is 
Rea's Mrs. Rea's mighty house and garden. It was bruit from time to 
Garden time as the English houses are, and therefore has an indescrib- 
able something which comes to a house which has grown slowly 
and not "sprung full-armed from the head of" — the architect. 
As soon as you step over the sill of the great door you feel at 
home; welcome radiates from it. Looking through the western 
door the green garden lies before you, a long, wide planting of 
massed Evergreens, low and varied and broken up here and 
there by formal paths and large urns. This vista carries the 
eye over some fountains to the terraced pergola and the superb 
view of the Ohio River beyond. 
Mrs. Luncheon was served at tables under a narrow blue French 
Lyon's awning' which extended in a V-shape around the swimming 
Garden pool lawn. We lingered a while in the cool rooms of the house 
and then motored on to the garden of Mrs. Denniston Lyon, a 
garden planned by Byron Fleming. A tapis-vert leads from 
the house to the oval walled garden; at each end there was a 
curious Japanese wall-fountain in a niche, which fed the central 
basin. The flowers were growing luxuriantly in an irregular 
crescent-shaped rockery at either end, and for variety of rare 
plants used, this was the finest garden we saw in our whole 
"grand tour." John Barnet, the head-gardener, is a man of 
taste as well as of knowledge of plant-material, and the color 
combinations and the placing of shaggy dwarf Evergreens 
among the flowers was done by a master hand. Yellow Aconitum 
Lycoctonum, blue Scabiosa Japonica, choice varieties of Del- 
phinium, Thalictrum, blue Petunias and creeping Thyme, were 
deliciously combined. 
Mrs. The next garden was that of Mrs. William Thaw, Jr. Laid 
Thaw's out by Olmstead, it consists of a large square terrace surrounded 
Garden on three sides by a dignified pergola, the third side left open 
towards the view which, seen over a mass of 'belladonna Del- 
phinium, gives it a most ethereal effect. The long low house and 
the garden connect in the most delightful way, for you walk 
right from the wide porch directly into the vine-covered out- 
doors. 
Mrs. The eighth garden of the day was that of Mrs. Alexander 
Alexander Laughlin, Jr. We alighted at the huge Rose-garlanded water 
Laughlin tower and walked up toward the house through the oblong 
j R / s flower garden, and so on to a most inviting swimming pool which 
Garden was on the terrace near the house. The arrangement of pool, 
tea-house and terrace was delightful, and a. fine view added to 
the beauty of the spot. 
Mrs. From here we went to Mrs. B. F. Jones' superb house on a 
Jones' neighboring hill-top, where we enjoyed a most delicious tea, 
Garden refreshing our weary faculties with friendly talk. 
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