Sedums grow along its edge and groups of lemon-colored Water 
Poppies float upon it in the sparkling autumn sunshine. It ends 
in a wall fountain, on each side of which steps ascend to the 
swimming pool terrace. There are walls and steps, both dry and 
plastered, everywhere covered with all sorts of charming rock- 
plants and vines, — the intense blue of Ipomea coerulea, the 
orange Thunbergia, with its black eyes, commonly used by 
florists in window boxes but here set out to prosper until October 
sees it growing gracefully in great masses; the Bittersweet, 
Akebia, Clematis and Dolichos, and the white Hyacinth Bean 
Daylight, whose sister Darkness, has metal-colored seed pods, 
which make it a joy long after the blossoms leave. To the left 
of the house is the Rose garden, above the sunken garden, and 
near it such a tool house ! Shelves with blue, labelled cans filled 
with every kind of plant-medicine, tonic, and pest-preventive 
with pigeon-holed labels, pencils, seeds, scissors, — all the little 
gardening impedimenta, the search for which at the right moment 
certainly impedes many of us. Also tools of every sort and kind 
that the most energetic gardener could desire to keep for her 
very own. 
To the right of the house lies the Blue garden, which opens 
into the paddock on one side where an enormous old Cherry tree 
forms a striking background. There are blooming blue Salvias, 
the annual farinacea and patens, the latter a most intense cobalt, 
and azurea, whose name describes it ; Eupatorium coelestinmn ; 
annual Ageratum, both high and dwarf; Platycodon grandiflora 
still showing some flowers; Blue Spirea, Caryopteris Masta- 
canthus, such a lovely shrub-like sphere of feathery blue; 
Heliotrope and Lohelia Erinus compacta, blue Aconitum and 
Blue Flax. The background to the north is of walls and vines 
with various New England Asters here and there. Blue Enfield 
jars of a perfect shade and glaze flank the steps to the Iris 
Garden. The Bowl is enclosed in an almost perfect square 
10iy2 by 101 feet. On two sides are stone steps into the 
other gardens; at the corner farthest from the house, a gazebo. 
Long narrow beds of Iris line this square, with four trian- 
gular ones surrounding the flat brim of the Bowl. These last 
are filled with Pallida Dalmatica, Japanese and Siberian Iris, 
the beds bordered with Primulas, Lobelia, sedum, Arabis, 
Creeping Phlox, Candji^uft, etc. Four circular terraces form the 
Bowl. From the top terrace to the pool at the bottom, there is 
a drop of four feet. Each terrace except the top one is composed 
of two circular beds with a three foot grass path between, 
supported by a dry wall, eighteen inches in height, filled with 
rock plants. Each terrace is broken into four sections by stone 
steps, also covered with rock plants. The four sections are 
planted according to color — purples and lavenders, blues and 
whites, pinks, and yellows and smoky shades. The higher varieties 
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