BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
author of “Hardy Garden” books. Two photographs, 
not hitherto published, must alone represent the acres of 
bloom on this interesting place. In describing it, eight 
gardens must be considered rather than the garden. The 
Evergreen Garden (shown here), the May Flowering 
Hillside, the Lily and Iris Garden, the Pool Garden, the 
Perennial Garden, the Cedar Walk, the Vegetable Garden, 
bordered with flowers, and the Rose Garden. A rare 
treat for garden lovers who visit there by special arrange- 
ment. 
At Ridgeland Farm, in Westchester County, the owner 
has shown that the smallest garden possible when fitted to 
artistic surroundings and filled with harmonious bloom can, 
as a garden and as a picture, satisfy our craving for the 
beautiful quite as completely as a subject on a much larger 
scale. This fair little plot, with its brick paths and gay 
blossoms, continues in bloom for several months, which, in 
spite of narrow beds, is always possible in a well-planned 
and carefully tended garden. 
New York includes within its borders the climate of all 
the New England States, and, besides, the atmosphere of 
its lake shores and the milder sea climate of New York 
City and Long Island. Between the high altitudes of the 
Adirondacks on the north and the sea-level of Long Island 
on the south there is a difference of nearly four weeks in 
the opening of spring. Within a forty-mile radius of New 
York City and westward in the same latitude Daffodils 
appear about April 15; early Tulips and Phlox divaricata 
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