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of some tree trunks ; and Larkspur, Foxglove, and 
other tall flowers crowded up to them and hung 
their heads over the top rails as children hang over 
a fence or a gate. I thought it a neat, trim fashion, 
not one I would care for in my own garden, yet 
not to be despised in the garden of another. 
A garden enclosed ! so full of suggestion are these 
simple words to me, so constant is my thought that 
Garden of Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright. Waldstein, Fairfield, Conn. 
an ideal flower garden must be an enclosed garden, 
that I look with regret upon all beautiful flower beds 
that are not enclosed, not shut in a frame of green 
hedges, or high walls, or vine-covered fences and 
dividing trees. It may be selfish to hide so much 
beauty from general view ; but until our dwelling- 
houses are made with uncurtained glass walls, that 
all the world may see everything, let those who 
