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would have a benefiting and softening influence 
on these criminals. She writes rather dubiously : 
“ They all enjoyed being out of doors with their 
pipes, whether among the flowers or the vegetables ; 
and no attempt at escape was ever made by any 
of them while in the comparative freedom of the 
flower-garden.” She planted and marked distinctly 
in this garden over seven hundred groups of an- 
nuals and hardy perennials, hoping the men would 
care to learn the names of the flowers, and through 
that knowledge, and their practise in the care of 
Box edgings and hedges, be able to obtain positions 
as under-gardeners when their terms of imprison- 
ment expired. 
The garden at Tudor Place, the home of Mrs. 
Beverley Kennon (page 103), displays fine Box; 
and the garden of the poet Longfellow which is 
said to have been laid out after the Box-edged 
parterres at Versailles. Throughout this book are 
scattered several good examples of Box from Salem 
and other towns ; in a sweet, old garden on Kings- 
ton Hill, Rhode Island (page 104) the flower-beds 
are anchor-shaped. 
In favorable climates Box edgings may grow in 
such vigor as to entirely fill the garden beds. An 
example of this is given on page 105, showing the 
garden at Tuckahoe. The beds were laid out over 
a large space of ground in a beautiful design, which 
still may be faintly seen by examining the dark ex- 
panse beside the house, which is now almost solid 
Box. The great hedges by the avenue are also 
Box ; between similar ones at Uhpton Court in 
