BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
ing over the large space is all balanced in predominating 
colors of rose, lavender, white, and palest yellow. Gray 
foliage and white flowers are freely used, and through the 
entire summer there is not one week when the whole gar- 
den is not gay with flowers from June until frost. 
To the northeast of Alma is the lovely garden at Gar- 
ra-tigh, where Daffodils bloom, as in Alma, three weeks 
later than near the city of New York. Bay City is in the 
latitude of Portland, Maine, and central Oregon. This 
attractive garden shows the effective combination of 
flowers and trees so well arranged that the trees are not 
detrimental to the vigor of the plants, and the sunny 
garden space is doubly radiant by contrast, lying within 
the trees’ encircling shadows. Garra-tigh is the Gaelic for 
House with the Garden. 
Near Detroit, at Fairlawn, Grosse Pointe Shores, on 
Lake St. Clair, where the country is flat and fertile, there 
is another delightful place of interest noted for the 
abundance of flowers covering several acres of land. The 
accompanying photograph was made in early September, 
when the best of the bloom had passed. In June and 
July the place is a glory with Lilies, Columbine, and Del- 
phinium that are counted in hundreds, and earlier there 
are Tulips and Daffodils by the thousands. Behind the 
broad borders that edge the walks vegetables grow in great 
quantities. Early Tulips come the first week of May, 
late Tulips about May 20. Climate and soil combine to 
simplify the gardening tasks in this productive country. 
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