BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
the wall; the fourth side contains the simple entrance, 
and beyond the boundaries on all three sides — the won- 
derful view. 
At Naumkeag, Stockbridge, the formal garden full of 
bloom, which is part of a larger plan, has a wide-spread 
reputation. It is especially noted for its battlement-cut 
hedge, and has as an accessory a splendid landscape back- 
ground, so common to the Berkshires and so desirable to 
the garden beautiful. “Naumkeag” is the Indian name 
for Salem, meaning “Haven of Rest.” 
Recently completed at Great Barrington, the spacious 
garden at Brookside is the best piece of Italian work in this 
section. The accompanying illustration gives but a faint 
idea of its size, its flowers, and its many other fine points. 
The two pictures illustrating the garden at Overloch, 
Wenham, and at Rock Maple Farm, Hamilton, are still 
other good examples of the variety and charm of the 
flower planting of this coast State. Both of these views 
are unique, and in fact how seldom do we find sameness in 
gardens ! 
Mr. Longfellow’s place at Cambridge, Doctor Weld’s at 
Brookline, and The Witch’s Place at Salem are typical 
of New England — the paths all edged with Box, which 
shrub, on account of frost blights, has never attained 
great height. These gardens are just simple, lovable lit- 
tle places filled with shadows and sunshine, some flowers, 
and the good scent of Box, which latter always seems so 
especially essential to old gardens. 
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