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Old Time Gardens 
Delafield at Greenport, Long Island, the hedges of 
plain and variegated Box are unusually fine, and the 
paths are well laid out. Some of them are entirely 
covered by the closing together of the two hedges 
which are often six or seven feet in height. 
In spite of the constant assertion of the winter- 
killing of Box in the North, the oldest Box in 
Anchor-shaped Flower-beds, Kingston, Rhode Island. 
the country is that at Sylvester Manor, Shelter 
Island, New York. The estate is now owned bv 
the tenth mistress of the manor, Miss Cornelia 
Horsford ; the first mistress of the manor, Grissel 
Sylvester, who had been Grissel Gardiner, came 
there in 1652. It is told, and is doubtless true, that 
she brought there the first Box plants, to make, in 
what was then a far-away island, a semblance of her 
