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The Garden Magazine, May, 1923 
H. L. Standley , Photo. 
“I KNOW FIR TREES AND PANSY PURPLE HILLS 
GARDENS WHERE THE SPRING COMES WITH SHINING DAFFODILS. 
I KNOW VALLEYS THAT ARE CUPS OF PALE GREEN MIST, 
HIGH AND HAPPY MEADOWS THAT THE SUN HAS KISSED.” 
“The Garden of the West,” Louise Driscoll 
At Rockledge, the Edward H. Heath estate, Manitou, Colorado, one of the most 
noteworthy places of the Pikes Peak region. The site originally a steep hillside 
of unpromising aspect has been marvelously developed from a landscape stand¬ 
point yet in keeping with the native growth of pines and cedars found on it, 
care being taken to retain practically all. The mansion is gained by a driveway 
which gains the eminence by long loops between which .are the lawns and the 
indigenous plants and trees. On the hill back of the residence the fruit and 
vegetable garden has been provided by terracing. On the west side of the house 
where the mountain outlook is practically fine a small area has been utilized for a 
rustic pergola of native cedar. There is here a bit of lawn, a centring bed of 
native Columbines, and a dwarfed Spruce 
