A POOL BEAUTIFULLY BROIDERED ABOUT BY PLANTS 
Anything more lovely and more various than this planting in Mrs. Farrand’s own rock garden at Reef Point (Bar Harbor, Maine) would be difficult 
to imagine. The lacy flower of the Meadow-sweet and the heavy foliage of Megasea (Saxifraga ligulata) teach a lesson in the value of contrasts 
WHERE ARTIFICE AND NATURE SEEM ONE 
Perhaps the highest test of any art is its power to convey a convincing semblance of reality, and certainly this bit of planting is so skilfully done 
that it merges into the natural landscape with no sense of difference or division. In Mrs. Farrand’s Bar Harbor garden (see also above) 
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