^ UNION** ; 
To Paint the Landscape O’er 
though one can see how an intelligent and artistic 
purpose has been followed in order to accomplish 
all this harmonious general result, for here one will 
discover how carefully and with what rare taste the 
design, symmetry, order, balance, contrast, group 
and ornament have been united in this charming 
landscape. 
To paint in glowing colors a living, ever changing 
and ever renewing picture has been the great, domi¬ 
nant idea. Here will be found trees of distinct 
shape and color, vines and shrubs massed to bloom 
at different times of the year following each other 
from month to month as fast as those that bloom 
first, change and fade, and the eye is constantly 
seeking and enjoying this varied moving panorama 
with an always renewed pleasure. It is not the 
purpose of this article to give a full and complete 
record of all the surprises in reserve for one who 
would thus paint his landscape o’er, but to him who 
has a pied a terre, to any one of limited means and 
resources these suggestions and hints taken from the 
beauties of “Overleigh” will be of service and their 
simplicity, their practicability will appeal to all 
lovers of color and sympathetic suggestion in his 
surroundings. Most people observe only that the 
whole general color scheme of nature is of green, 
the sky is blue, the earth brown, anything interme¬ 
diary in the way of shade and tint is lost upon such 
indifference, and the subtle beauties of a landscape’s 
varied color would be undiscovered, existing not, 
because they see them not. But the camera in all 
these pictures taken at “Overleigh” has been sensitive 
to the various gradations of color and one can easily 
recognize the different shades and tints of green as 
he studies them. 
Plate No. I is the terrace in front of the house, 
and along the wall on which the pergola stands 
and along all the walls that surround the house 
are planted retinosporas, Japanese evergreens or 
cypress, among other trees of a like dwarf character 
of nearly one hundred varieties and about one 
thousand in all. Among these are trailing and erect 
junipers of all kinds. The junipers are of striking 
color tints of bluish green, straight and graceful in 
shapes and some of the trailing varieties, Jumperus 
Virgmiana var. glauca and Jumperus venusta. show 
the bluest of evergreens and are lovely in June as 
well as in winter. Here also are cedars of golden 
yellow, cedars of dark green and light green and 
cedars red, with those cedars known as creeping 
lunipers, J. prostrata , J. squamata , J. tamariscijolia. 
Interspersed among these are dwarf concolor spruce 
of a peculiar blue green, and the Colorado blue 
spruce, light blue green and delightfully resinous, 
has a capacity also for variations of color at different 
seasons. It is attractive in winter and as pleasing 
as the Japanese spruce, its neighbor here, known as 
Alcock’s spruce, that shows gradations of yellow, 
silver and green hues. Here is found the American 
black dwarf spruce of striking form and compact 
