NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XIV 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, April 28 
No. 1 
Gardens Along the North Shore 
By LILLIAN McCANN 
EYERY woman should garden. It is a woman’s work. 
It means youth and health, and strength for a woman. 
It gives an even development to use the cultivator and i 
keeps one slender. Gardening is much better than games. 
Anyone who plays tennis a great deal, for instance, has 
one shoulder higher than the other, one side is over and 
the other under developed. It is a splendid thing to 
know about gardening if for nothing more than to see 
that one’s gardener does. Think of a first-class gardener, 
a diploma man, doubling back the roots of a valuable rose 
he is going to plant instead of spreading them out!” 
Such were the sentiments of Mrs. Herbert Spencer 
Harde, the successful amateur, who gave a series of Len- 
ten talks last year to New York society women for the 
benefit of the International Child Welfare league. The 
loving and working with flowers she called slavery, “but 
it is such sweet slavery.” 
Mrs. Harde told of her successful gardening on an 
old and secluded spot where there was everything to do 
and a chance to experiment on new lines, her marvelous 
gardens being at their country home in Massachusetts 
near Newburyport. She mentioned summers tried in 
various places, then added: “One year we went to the 
North Shore of Massachusetts, and afterward. | never 
wanted to go anywhere else.” 
How many others have felt the lure of our beautiful 
North Shore and are never quite satisfied with a summer 
spent elsewhere! How many women there are, too, on 
our immediate North Shore who go in for gardening! 
There is Mrs. John 1. Saltonstall (Gladys Durant 
Rice), who has taken a course in landscape gardening and 
who is planning to do original things with their wild and 
woodsy place in Beverly Cove in the near future. 
Then there are the women who go in for prizes and 
win them too at the annual summer flower shows of the 
North Shore Horticultural Society. What beauties those 
delphiniums, gladioli, sweet peas, cosmos, dahlias, pen- 
stemon, phlox and salvia were last year which gave Mrs. 
Frank B. Bemis of Beverly Farms so many prizes! And 
that new geranium, “Mrs. Lester Leland” for which Mrs. 
Leland received a certificate of merit is of special men- 
tion, also her silver medal for a group of begonias, aside 
from other prizes. The special prizes that went to Mrs. 
Henry L. Higginson, who had some notable exhibits; 
to Mrs. Walter D. Denégre for her table decoration in 
sweet peas; the many that went to Mrs. Frank P. Frazier ; 
and those given to Miss Pauline Croll Mrs.4Se-P= Blake, 
Mrs. C. S. Hanks, Mrs. E. S. Grew, Mrs. T. J. Coolidge, 
Jr., Mrs. George E. Cabot, Mrs. C. H. Dalton, Mrs. Gor- 
don Abbott, Mrs. E. C. Fitch, Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, 
Mrs. Lathrop Brown and Mrs. H. $. Grew, 2d—all these 
are evidence of the “sweet slavery” spirit in our midst. 
And then the gardens as a whole—who would under- 
take the task of passing upon them and saying which one 
excelled more than another? All are different and each 
excells in its own peculiar style of beauty and arrange- 
ment. A visit to “Uplands” that beautiful and expansive 
garden of the Frank P. Fraziers, so charitably situated 
on the public highway, would almost naturally lead one to 
think that here is the garden that should be given the first 
prize. But how about those delicious, small, bewitching 
gardens such as ‘““Pompey’s Garden,” on the Pride’s Cross- 
ing home of Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, Jr.; the Italian garden 
on the estate of the Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge on Cool- 
idge’s Point; that wonderfully rich and impressive Italian 
garden at “Dawson Hall,” the Beverly Cove home of 
Mrs. Robert D. Evans. All of these have a distinct 
charm which the larger gardens cannot overshadow. 
The gardens of the Hooper estate (now Mrs. Lathrop 
Brown’s) at West Manchester, have always been noted 
among the beautiful ones of the North Shore. They were 
enjoyed last year by the John Markles of New York. 
Over Smith’s Point way in Manchester the gardens of 
Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, George R. White and Mrs. W. 
Scott Fitz and that charming garden of the W. A. Tuckers 
seen upon entering Manchester are very noticeable. Two 
small gardens which attract by their old fashioned flowers 
belong to Mrs. William H. Coolidge, at Blynman Farm 
and to Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby at “Apple Trees.” And then 
the roses—who can ever forget those seen at Mrs. 
Crosby’s, Mrs. George F. Willett’s, Mrs. William B. Walk- 
er’s and Mrs. Lester Leland’s? One artistic little garden 
lawn in Manchester worthy of considerable notice was 
that at “The Plains’ enjoyed last summer by the Ran- 
dolph F. Tuckers of Chestnut Hull. 
_ At Beverly Farms the ideal of all gardens seems to 
be found at last on the Haven estate, the home of Miss 
M. E. Haven and Mrs. Franklin Haven. Here is a garden 
to rest in, a garden to enjoy for its esthetic beauty. 
Other fine gardens belong to Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, 
Mrs. Frank B. Bemis, Mrs. John Caswell, Mrs.. Sydney 
E. Hutchinson, Mrs. Joseph Leiter and Mrs. George Lee. 
Perhaps the queen of all North Shore gardens is located 
at Beverly Farms, for here is found the famous Spauld- 
ing gardens, so-called, noted not only for their beauty, 
but for the fine commercial greenhouses whose products 
are the wonder of the Shore. The gardens were former- 
ly the property of W. S. and J. T: Spaulding. 
At Pride’s Crossing, the garden at “Eagle Rock,” the 
magnificent summer home of the Henry C. Fricks of New 
York, is another of the North Shore gardens placed by 
the roadside in view of all passers-by. That it is beauti- 
ful and enjoyable to look at goes without saying. <A 
friend of Mrs, William H. Moore has quaintly remarked 
that heaven could hold no more adorable beauty than that 
seen in the garden at “Rockmarge.’ The wealth and 
richness of the flowers and that charming willow walk 
are striking features at this estate. Among other 
gardens of interest are those at “The Pines,” the home 
of the Philip S. Sears and at “Ledgewood,” the Montser- 
rat home of Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, at whose place the 
roses are a riot of beauty in their time. 
At Beverly Cove the gardens belonging to the Thomas 
P. Beals, Dudley L. Pickmans, and Mrs. Joseph H. Tyler 
are unusually interesting. 
Over Ipswich way are the noted Barnard gardens 
from which Mr. Barnard has gained many noteworthy 
prizes and which have been for a long time the mecca for 
