BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
pany with the Wistaria. Annuals follow, and the place 
is kept in long bloom under the careful supervision of the 
owner. 
At The Blind, Havre de Grace, on the Chesapeake, is 
a charming and typically Southern garden with ancient 
Box hedges for a background, and filled with the bloom 
of many old-fashioned hardy plants and shrubs. The 
property of two hundred acres is partly under cultivation 
and partly covered with Holly and ancient trees. Around 
the gray stone mansion in springtime the place is like a 
fairy-land, with hundreds of blossoming shrubs and fruit 
trees. Originally the land belonged to the Stumpp family, 
who acquired it by grant from one of the early English 
governors. It is now in the possession of a New Yorker, 
who keeps it as a shooting-preserve and stock-farm. 
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