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House and Garden 
dear old-fashioned bee-balm of Shakespeare’s day. 
In this case a border of dwarf pink and white 
begonias keeps the bloom near the ground and 
heliotrope, or to use the old-fashioned English name 
“cherry pie,” coming next prevented the straggling 
coreopsis and other growing things from breaking 
the formal line; later the hollyhocks were succeeded 
by golden glow and 
scarlet salvias in 
rather dangerous 
proximity, as in this 
case the white daisy 
planted to act as a 
buffer and break the 
crudity of colour 
failed to appear 
punctually. In Octo¬ 
ber, masses of pink 
and white Japanese 
anemones, growing 
six feet high, came 
to again brighten the 
garden and these, 
owing to mild weath¬ 
er, lasted until the 
end of the month. 
Another garden on 
a point of land jut¬ 
ting out into the sea 
and exposed to all 
the winds of heaven 
had never grown a 
thing until a relative 
of the owner sug¬ 
gested taking it in 
hand and it stood a 
beautiful proof of 
the ingenuity of a 
woman in overcom¬ 
ing the elements. 
This patient gar¬ 
dener planted rows 
of firs; as these grew 
they became wind¬ 
screens and on the 
weather side of these 
she grew practically 
everything that her 
neighbors in less ex¬ 
posed situations had 
produced. Winding grass paths were used here 
with great effect and the unexpected glimpses of 
colors against the dark green of the firs made 
delightful pictures. In England nothing would 
have grown so near firs, owing to lqck of sufficient 
sunlight. I he Italian garden lends itself admirably 
to Newport scenery as the formal borders of yews 
and box being so prominent a feature of the design, 
POPLAR WALK-GARDEN OF SPENCER TRASK, ESQ., SARATOGA 
possess the great advantage of looking well until 
late in the year. From the amateur’s point of view, 
however, the garden growing the old-fashioned 
flowers is the most pleasant. There are few of 
these in Newport and the border where one can cut 
and come again exists in only a few gardens, but the 
resident tells the visitor that the idea is to keep the 
grounds surround¬ 
ing the houses as 
park-like as possible, 
and certainly there 
is a large assortment 
of trees of beautiful 
shape, and the hy- 
drangeas are the 
great feature of the 
place. They are 
most wonderful in 
size, colour and va¬ 
riety, ranging from 
the lovely single 
Japanese, a very 
tender bush treated 
with the greatest 
care by the few 
happy possessors, 
through the heavy 
blue and pink to the 
Hydrangea pamcu- 
lata which here 
grows into a young 
tree and turns from 
a lovely creamy 
white into a delicious 
blush rose colour, 
ending in a deep 
crimson when the 
frost touches it. 
The grass borders to 
the roads, which in 
England would be 
left to run wild, are 
here often mown and 
watered by the owner 
of the adjoining 
property and to the 
stranger the notices 
asking one not to 
ride on these shaven 
borders seems 
quaint, hut on the whole the quantity of lawns and 
lovely growing trees, and tell it not in Gath!—the 
climate — of Newport suggest the older country 
more than any other place visited by the writer in 
this country. 
One of the interesting small gardens of England 
is that of the late Augustus Hare. This is at St. 
Leonards on Sea, Sussex, England, but it lies back 
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