A Newport Villa and Grounds 
anemone. 1 his magnificent 
cedar hedge is twenty feet high 
and every tree was carefully 
selected in Massachusetts and 
brought a distance of seventy 
miles. 1 he heavy border of 
pink anemone is strikingly 
beautiful against the dark 
green foliage of the cedars. 
The view of the garden itself 
shows the double terrace—and 
the whole forms one of the 
handsomest developments of 
horticultural achievement in 
New England. 
The illustration of the 
French garden gives but a 
faint idea of its charm and 
beauty. The outlook is from 
the north loggia and shows 
the planting of hardy peren¬ 
nials whose color scheme has 
been the subject of careful 
forethought as to color effects. 
A fine view of the rose arbor 
is also obtained from this 
point, which is thickly covered with the choicest 
varieties of climbing roses. 
A beautiful group of large trees in a corner of 
the lawn, with a sixty-foot taxodium tree in the 
THE GRAVEL WALK 
centre, which was moved from 
the side of a wall 800 feet 
distant and has been grow¬ 
ing steadily since the trans¬ 
planting, form a very inter¬ 
esting feature of the grounds. 
In this group are catalpas, 
g i n g k o s , plane-trees and 
maples; the whole bordered 
with assorted evergreens. 
An excellent view of the 
velvety lawn is shown with its 
richness and beauty and the 
fine ornamental trees, splendid 
specimens of the fern-leaf 
beech, the large copper beech 
and the native oak. The beau¬ 
tiful walk of white pebbled 
gravel surrounds the entire 
grounds for thousands of feet. 
Masses of tall perennials 
hide the wall on the opposite 
side. Both of these smaller 
views illustrate the effect 
from opposite directions and 
are equally picturesque. 
This whole operation is a striking illustration 
of the rapidity with which the most finished and 
permanent effects in landscape gardening can be 
produced by skilled direction and modern methods. 
SOME OF THE LARGER TREES. (EVERY ONE OF THESE WAS TRANSPLANTED). 
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