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House & Garden’s 
Most successful is the arrangement of 
this garden vista. The dark background 
of luxuriant trees, the rich beauty of 
the perennial borders, the accentuating 
potted hydrangeas, all lead up to and 
enhance the delicate grace of the little 
Diana at the end of the path. This is 
a bit of the garden on Mrs. Gordon 
Abbott’s estate at Manchester, Mass. 
The decorative value of vines against a 
wall of dazzling whiteness is shown in 
this garden of Mrs. John C. Phillips at 
Beverly, Mass. They hang in profusion 
over the balustrade and clamber up 
from the border of perennials, making 
a charming background for the quaint 
old statue of St. Francis that surmounts 
the bird bath and fountain 
