BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
an accompanying illustration — an exquisite bit of semi- 
cultivated wildness that moves one to wish to see beyond 
the picture’s limits. 
Among its formal gardens, Tuxedo at present has 
nothing more imposing than the one at Woodland. The 
wall-beds contain perennials in mass against the vine- 
clad background, and the central fountain is framed 
in broad beds of Roses, in bush and standard form. This 
garden’s stately effects are enhanced by the richly de- 
veloped forms of clipped evergreens in Boxwood and va- 
rious Retinosporas, to all of which age, as must ever be 
the case, lends force and dignity. 
The Cragswerthe garden, a spacious plan on three 
connecting terraces, charmingly exemplifies the results 
obtainable by the exercise of good taste upon desirable 
opportunities. Each terrace illustrates, in harmony with 
the whole, a special beauty of its own. 
The hill gardens usually have also the advantage of a 
landscape background, as a rule a pleasant feature also in 
the Mount Kisco region of Westchester County, with its 
numerous hilltop homes. A garden with a view possesses 
a setting all its own; one that can hardly be imitated in 
that particular landscape at least, varying under the chang- 
ing clouds, and therefore never monotonous. Such also is 
the opportunity in many Hudson River places, and only 
those who have lived in the highlands by this most beauti- 
ful of American rivers know the charm of the mountain- 
sides, with their deep ravines and river vistas. 
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