The Garden 
Vol. XXXVII, No. 2 
MAGAZINE 
April, 1923 
Mattie Edwards Hewitt , Photo. 
THREE GARDENS OF MERIT 
ARE SHOWN ON THIS AND TWO FOLLOWING PAGES. 
THEY WERE EXHIBITED AT THE RECENT ANNUAL EXHI¬ 
BITION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK 
The Medal in Landscape Architecture was awarded to Mr. Harold 
Hill Blossom whose work is represented on pages 120-121 of this issue 
The personality of gardens, like that of people, is of 
many sorts—sometimes we find them frowsy, some¬ 
times overbearingly elegant but the H. W. Croft gar¬ 
den at Greenwich (Conn.) greets us with the dignity 
and friendliness of a well-bred woman too fundamen¬ 
tally right to be self-conscious. This delightful 
expression of Mrs. Ellen Shipman’s skill was one of 
the outstanding impressions of this year’s exhibition 
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