A Small New IJamps hire Garden 
the living-room of the house right into the 
main path of the garden. One of the 
illustrations shows its appearance from the 
piazza. The narrow bed to the right is 
planted with a row of spirea Thunbergi in 
front and with forsythia and Japanese 
honeysuckle behind. The low hedge, 
which outlines the two beds to the left, is 
plan. There is a small porch at this door, 
protected by a wooden structure, overgrown 
with wild grapes. Peonies are planted along 
the whole length of both sides of the path, 
and back of the peonies masses of larkspur, 
neither of which are in bloom at the period 
of the year in which the illustrations were 
taken. At the end of the beds are wild 
ACROSS THE GARDEN 
composed of Japanese barberry. The 
picture illustrates the garden as it appears 
during the first week in September, and the 
flowers in bloom are a mass of tall white 
phlox, in the first bed, and of boltonia in 
the second. The hedge at the back of the 
picture consists of carefully trimmed spirea 
van H outen. 
A more central view of the garden can, 
however, be obtained by entering the living- 
room from the piazza and coming out by the 
door, which leads to the main axis of the 
perennial asters, which are just beginning to 
flower. The upper garden which is reached 
by the white steps in the rear is eighteen 
inches higher than the lower garden. The 
white flowers which indistinctly appear in 
the upper garden are hydrangeas ; but the 
beds at that end are, for the most part, 
planted with annuals and with some few 
hardv roses. These beds are very large, 
measuring 14 x 25 feet each and requiring 
great masses of foliage and flowers to fill 
them. 
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