BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
planting schemes, and noticeable is the rather unusual 
variety of flowers growing in these several lovely gardens. 
The color grouping in the long, broad beds against the tall 
Privet background is as perfect as any planting known. 
The arbors on either side of the garden proper are formed 
of arches of Dorothy Perkins and Cedar trees alternating — 
the Cedars are bent and strapped at the top to produce 
a curve. The effect is both unusual and delightful. 
In the same place but farther from the sea is another 
famous garden, at The Orchard, the estate of James L. 
Breese, Esq. The garden was started about 1905 and is 
entirely original in design. The artistic sense of the 
owner is responsible for the dexterous touches which 
beautify the garden and pergolas. Neither photography 
nor word -picture could do justice to the exquisite harmony 
of coloring throughout this wonderful place, where bloom 
is continuous over a long period. 
Fashioned in Box-edged parterres after the old-time 
plan and dear to the heart of Americans is such a place 
as the sunny Box garden at The Appletrees, so charm- 
ingly portrayed in this chapter. There is a sweetness and 
trimness in its simplicity intermingling with the flowers to 
make it one of the fairest of garden-plots. 
We dwell with delight upon the picturesque view of 
a section of Mrs. Curtis’s garden which might well have 
been taken from an English garden, so closely does it 
resemble that type which has been our inspiration more 
especially during the last ten years. In America the 
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