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sometimes a great cone or ball of clipped Box. These 
gardens had some universal details, they always had 
great Snowball bushes, and Syringas, and usually 
white Roses, chiefly Madame Plantiers ; the piazza 
trellises had old climbing Roses, the Queen of the 
Prairie or Boursault Roses. These gardens are 
often densely overshadowed with great evergreen 
trees grown from the crowded planting of seventy 
years ago ; none are cut down, and if one dies its 
trunk still stands, entwined with Woodbine. I don’t 
know that we would lay out and plant just such a 
garden to-day, any more than we would build exactly 
such a house; but I love to see both, types of the 
refinement of their day, and I deplore any changes. 
An old Southern house of allied form is shown on 
page 72, and its garden facing page 70,— -Green- 
wood, in Thomasville, Georgia; but of course this 
garden has far more lavish and rich bloom. The 
decoration of this house is most interesting — a 
conventionalized Magnolia, and the garden is 
surrounded with splendid Magnolias and Crape 
Myrtles. The border edgings in this garden are 
lines of bricks set overlapping in a curious manner. 
They serve to keep the beds firmly in place, and the 
bricks are covered over with an inner edging of 
thrifty Violets. Curious tubs and boxes for plants 
are made of bricks set solidly in mortar. The gar- 
den is glorious with Roses, which seem to consort 
so well with Magnolias and Violets. 
I love a Dutch garden, cc circummured ” with 
brick. By a Dutch garden, I mean a small garden, 
oblong or square, sunk about three or four feet in 
