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Evidence of the success met by flowers under cultivation at 
Bar Harbor is given by these plants of native Solomon’s 
seal which are jar larger than others growing in the wild state 
Some Gardens at Bar Harbor 
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stepping stones as in the Farrand gar¬ 
den that beckon off into the delights of 
flowers. When stepping stones are not 
desired, when the wish is rather for 
grass walks, the gardener is equally 
fortunate, because the cool nights and 
the sea mellowness make turf such as 
may well be his pride. With incidents 
such as stone seats or bird baths in 
order, the granite awaits its use. The 
beauty of this work is that around and 
behind and beneath the seats native 
ferns will thrive, making the fine com¬ 
bination of strength and solidity and 
lacey delicacy that New England can 
so well boast. The bird bath of the 
Farrand garden, sunk in the ground, 
appears to be of primordial age. Be¬ 
tween it and its surroundings there is 
no quarrel. 
In some ways the finest thing about 
these gardens is their vistas. Note the 
invitation in the Murray Young garden 
to raise the eyes to the crests of the 
mountains that loom above the spruces. 
In other gardens the eyes gaze down 
long alleys where the roses shine, 
sometimes past them and out to sea, 
sometimes into the heart, of the woods, 
sometimes to a gleaming pool at the 
end. For many people this intimacy 
with the woods and the sea is priceless. 
The rocks of the northern and the 
eastern shores are high and rugged. Be¬ 
low them the sea churns and sobs or 
roars and pounds. Through gaps one 
catches the blue-green waters of French¬ 
man’s Bay or the Atlantic. Now and 
then a stately white sail moves among 
the islands. The tang of salt is in the 
air. Romance stirs the pulse and whisks 
the beholder away to the land of heart’s 
desire, the perfect land of flowers and 
of dreams. 
How To Make Livable Rooms of Green 
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nignly accepting these tributes up¬ 
lifted to its pale glory. So, too, might 
the green room be. . . . 
But leading to the accomplishment of 
any miracle there is a slow path of 
patient plodding: the honest study and 
experiment of effects, the wielding of 
transforming paint brushes, the prick¬ 
ing of the needle as the thread of 
flaming amber wool slides vividly be¬ 
tween its fellows of green; there is the 
contemplation of texture and its effect 
in this color; the importance of the 
decorative breaking up of surfaces, the 
peeping of flowers, the judicious placing 
of delicate green tones charmingly 
against somber gray ones; the tall slen¬ 
der grace of green furniture. 
To know how to accomplish a really 
successful green room is to know and 
appreciate color and form, plus acquir¬ 
ing the ability to capture a certain shy 
beauty, perpetuating its charm without 
losing its fresh sweetness. This may 
not be accomplished by sheer expense 
of materials, neither by brilliant ex¬ 
panses of color: such effects are too 
clearly not to be bought by the yard. 
This we know intuitively, but never 
do we realize it so poignantly as when 
we stand, as I did just lately, in the 
room fairly reeking with rich unctuous 
green. The floor was covered with a 
thick-piled, moss-green carpet, — not 
moss-green in shadow, but the insistent¬ 
ly brilliant tone of a mossy stream-bank 
momentarily caught by the sun; a tone 
that is beautiful in Nature because of 
its rarity and briefness, but which is 
deadly spread all over a floor in a bril¬ 
liant fixed stare. By and by the floor 
permitted one to glance painfully at the 
rest of the horror: the rich cream walls 
nearly bilious in color, at the windows 
the long floor-length curtains of moss- 
green velours, the fatly overstuffed 
chairs resembling the stream-bank in 
color, texture and form,—rolling, bland, 
moss-covered. And yet the pride of 
possession kept the well-meaning in¬ 
habitant of this greenness from realizing 
the thin obviousness of the scheme. 
But the joy that may be gotten from 
the green room brought about on this 
wise! Misty gray walls, which are just 
as they imply, the color of a misty 
early morning; gray woodwork of a 
slightly deeper tone, and, since the room 
is a dining room, a built-in comer cup¬ 
board, from which peep out alluring 
lemon yellow china things from between 
the soft green curtains; at the windows 
green curtains, too, of a pleasant rough 
silk; the buffet and drop-leaf table of 
leaf green decorated in a dull mustard 
yellow nearly the color of gold, the 
interior of the drawers of the buffet 
lined also with this; on the yellow 
Chinese lacquer tea wagon a pewter tea 
service, and on the buffet a pair. of 
pewter candlesticks and a black bowl 
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