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PLAN OF THE BOX GARDEN 
Specially measured and drawn for House and Garden 
the hand of man is properly at work guiding 
nature. And against the wall the espaliered. 
tree is the more effective both in looks and 
in yield of fruit. If the sun be too hot and 
the wall too dry, as in our climate is often 
the case, so as to wither the blooms and fruit, 
wires may be stretched a little away from the 
wall,—from the buttresses, for instance, here 
at Mount Vernon,—or a screen of ivy or 
other dense vine-growth may be made to 
cover the bricks to keep them cooler. 
One rather misses sunflowers from the old 
garden. A company oi these stalwart well- 
disciplined fellows would show well down in 
the angle of the stables and the wall. A 
yellow rose or other climber against the wall 
here and there was generally to be found in 
the old garden; and jasmine was a favorite. 
Altheas and lilacs there were, and of course, 
nasturtiums, bachelors’-buttons, gillyflowers, 
and stocks, sweet williams, pansies, and the 
rest. As the air drew over the ranks of 
these and across the beds of lavender, sage, 
and thyme—those simples found in every 
old garden, the good housekeeper’s aids, 
which we have mostly now from the grocer’s 
—it came laden with a fragrance indescribable. 
Our last look at Mount Vernon on that 
pleasant day was backward over the yellow 
waving wheat to the long row of “ quarters ” 
which break the north wind from the gardens. 
They massed well in the westering sun, which 
picked out sharp high lights on the little 
dormers. One could fancy the mammies and 
pickaninnies of an old long-gone time about 
their doors and on the road, a feature not the 
least pleasant and picturesque of the banished 
glories of the southern planter’s home. 
Albert Burnley Bibb. 
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