Cleveland Gardens 
Visited on Tuesday, June 13th. 
Mrs. St. The official round of the day had not begun when a kindly 
John fate led me to this most charming and individual of places. The 
Newberry's gardens of Cleveland were of all kinds, imposing and intimate, 
Garden but few had the original and personal fascination of Mrs. 
Newberry's. Though within city limits the house was placed above 
a wooded ravine at the bottom of which splashed a lively brook, 
while large trees grew so close and so high that from the house 
terrace one looked into their upper branches. Actual flower 
garden there was none, though a sunny space next the garage 
bloomed with color, but the slope on the hill-side had been 
converted into a series of small terraces that led to paths beneath 
the house where much good wild planting had been done. The 
warm gray tone of the house was continued in the walls, and one 
entered the first terrace under an arch covered with Van Fleet 
and Silver Moon Roses. Here was a shallow niche in the wall 
above a half circle pool from which rose a slender column with a 
small figure of the "Duck Baby" — it was all so in proportion, 
and the play of light and shadow so lovely! Narrow beds next 
the walls were well planted — on a lower terrace were Japanese 
Iris just beginning to flower, and a small rectangular pool held 
Lilies. The selection of plants for the shade was admirable and 
restrained. 
Winden The home of Miss Belle and Miss Prudence Sherwin, impressed 
one as the result of thoughtful adherence to a definite plan of 
development — it was a place of wide sweeping views, luxurious 
and extensive planting of choice Evergreens and varied shrubs, 
beautiful old trees, and a large formal garden with many stone 
walls and terraces, all surrounded by a rich well cultivated farm. 
A long drive led through a deep planting of thickly massed shrubs 
to a brick house that had been added to at various times and now 
spread hospitably over a hill top above a sunny expanse of fertile 
country. From a tile terrace where Bignonia, Clematis and coral 
Honeysuckle twined, one looked over a circular grass expanse 
edged by old Apple trees, Crataegus, Kerria and China Roses, 
with Myrtle everywhere. Beneath the first wall was striking 
planting of long spurred Columbines in many shades, a heavy 
pergola was covered with "Wistaria, and circular terraces led to 
grass, woodland and a creek. The very extensive formal garden 
itself is built in a series of terraces, down a long slope, many 
ramps and shallow steps making a leisurely descent, all shut in 
by a tall planting of Evergreens, shrubs and deciduous trees. 
The first great wall had a background of Hemlocks, and at the 
extreme ends old Apple trees had been retained, their twisted 
branches making a decorative note in color and form. Coton- 
easter, horizontalis and microphylla, flourished in masses with 
enormous clumps of Junipers. Pfitzeriana and tamariscifolia. 
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