HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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The border in this garden is made up of familiar flowers—petunias, dahlias, 
mainly with a sweet alyssum edging 
“Snow Storm,” fringed at the edges and with yellow throats; 
eccentric dahlias, which have a single whorl of slender, dark 
red, velvety petals, with a yellow fluted panuelo of smaller ones 
about a head of pale-green transparent scales. There are many 
other well-known flowers, which are so transformed as to seem 
like the faces of old friends grown beautiful almost beyond 
recognition. 
One may see these, but for the most part the superb view 
beyond them, including the quaint old town known as Round- 
out, before it became a part of Kingston, the Catskill and the 
Hudson, so completely challenge the attention that the near- 
at-hand is not much noted. 
As unlike this wall-bounded little area of beauty as two 
things of the same kind can well be, is a garden devoted almost 
exclusively to perennials. This garden has been made to fit— 
at least it does fit in the nicest way — the plain, staid old house 
to which it belongs. Still, though it is in a way old-fashioned, 
it is very much up-to-date as to the flowers grown and the way 
in which they are cultivated. 
Between the seed beds and the high-standing, self-contained 
house is a dooryard in which, scattered about in a happy-go- 
lucky fashion in the grass, are snowdrops, each shrub leading 
an independent life in a little pool of black earth. These seem 
to express the motive of the whole garden, where all is helped 
Through this rustic pergola seat you pass down to the second terrace, as shown in 
the farther corner of the illustration on the page opposite 
