Box Edgings 
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home garden. It is said that this Box was thriving 
in Madam Sylvester's garden when George Fox 
preached there to the Indians. The oldest Box is 
fifteen or eighteen feet high ; not so tall, I think, as 
the neglected Box at Vaucluse, the old Hazard place 
near Newport, but far more massive and thrifty and 
shapely. Box needs unusual care and judgment, an 
instinct almost, for the removal of certain portions. 
Ancient Box at Tuckakoe. 
It sends out tiny rootlets at the joints of the sprays, 
and these grow readily. The largest and oldest 
Box bushes at Sylvester Manor garden are a study 
in their strong, hearty stems, their perfect foliage, 
their symmetry; they show their care of centuries. 
The delightful Box-edged flower beds were laid 
out in their present form about seventy years ago 
by the grandfather of the present owner. There 
is a Lower Garden, a Terrace Garden, which are 
shown on succeeding pages, a Fountain Garden, a 
