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FORMAL GARDENS. 
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the Navy, George von L. Meyer, at 
Hamilton, Massachusetts, shows a 
delightful formal garden, most at- 
tractively laid out. It lays at the 
right of the house, and is reached by 
a flight of marble steps. Wrought 
iron arches overhung with vines and 
rambler roses are features, and in 
the centre is a beautiful marble well- 
eurb flanked by terra cotta vases 
which stand upon tall marble pedes- 
tals. Defining the geometrically de- 
signed flowerbeds are small cy- 
press trees, kept carefully trimmed. 
These diminutive trees are being 
made quite a feature of at this estate, 
and are extensively used for orna- 
mental purposes. They are trans- 
planted direct from the woods in 
their wild state, and the experiment 
has been most successful. 
The formal beds of the garden 
each show a solid mass of bloom, and 
between them are gravelled paths 
and plats of velvety greensward 
edged with a border of sweet alyssum 
or lobelia. At one end of the gar- 
den, in the centre of a flower-bor- 
dered grass plot, is a handsomely 
earved fountain of Italian marble, 
with three stone lions grouped 
around its base, and arranged about 
in other plots are several additional 
den, at Beverly Cove, is a charming 
spot. It is founded upon rock, built 
of stone and cement, and the soil 
MRS. DUDLEY PICKMAN’S GARDEN, BEVERLY 
marble fragments. The garden is 
truly delightful, and entirely se- 
cluded, and directly overlooks the 
well planned tennis court. 
Mrs. Guy Norman’s Sicilian gar- 
was brought there and filled in 
after the walls were laid. So it is 
really a sea garden. Great jars stand 
along the upper terrace, and jars, 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
‘‘Nature has been most kind to this section of the 
North Shore,’’ writes an ardent devotee of the North 
Shore after a recent visit to Beverly Cove, ‘‘and what 
nature did not accomplish the hand of man has aided 
and has reared stately tree-bordered avenues, taken 
swamplands and transformed them into bowers of beau- 
ty and sylvan retirement for, the very wealthy and 
representative clientele of the Cove. Old ocean does 
her part, too, in the stage setting as does the picturesque 
little lighthouse at the Cove, which stands out as a bit 
of drama in this novel ensemble of delightful attractions 
in a vicinity most notable now as the summer home of 
a President of the U. S. In the foreground of the pic- 
ture are the shores of Marblehead and Salem and the 
islands—Mystery and Baker’s. The combination of 
ocean and woodland is a charming asset of many of the 
estates here and there is a maze of intricate patlis, 
groves and thickets in which one is glad to get lost for 
they reveal such artistic treatment of the landscape 
gardener and retirement in its most restful guise. And 
it is no surprise that the Presidential family should be 
so highly pleased with the essentials of beauty and quiet 
the Burgess Point section of the Cove offers.’’ 
Miss Harriet Dexter is away from Pride’s Crossing 
for a short visit with friends at Northeast Harbor, Me., 
and other points in that vicinity. 
The naval attaché of the Brazilian embassy, Lieut. 
Com. Marques de Azevedo and the Marquesa are at Mt. 
Elliot, Va., for the summer and their Washington apart- 
ments at Stoneleigh court are closed. 
Gordon Dexter of Pride’s Crossing is eruising in 
Maine waters in his steam yacht the ‘‘Pawnee.’’ He 
was at Northeast Harbor Tuesday. 
There was much North Shore interest in the wed- 
ding July 16, at Philadelphia, of Miss Priscilla Toland 
and Gaspar Bacon of Boston, son of U. S. Ambassador 
Robert Bacon of Paris. The Baroness Von Schauensee 
of Rome, who presides over a beautiful home there, 
crossed for her sister’s wedding. 
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth arrived at Bar Har- 
bor last week as the guest of Mrs. Nicholas Anderson of 
Washington, at the Miller cottage, and was to remain a 
week or more, as much entertaining was to be done in 
her honor. 
Davies Sohier, Harvard 711, son of Col. and Mrs. Will- 
iam D. Sohier of Beverly, and Bishop Lawrenee’s son, 
W. A. Lawrenee, are soon to depart for England where 
they will join classmates for a motor tour. 
Miss Estelle Turner, who is the guest of Mrs. Roger 
Noble Burnham at Magnolia, is a Southerner who has 
just returned from Europe where her sister and herself 
sang the plantation melodies of the Old South to their 
banjo accompaniments. They sang in Italy and France, 
but their greatest successes were in England, where they 
appeared before royalty at a garden party given by the 
present King and Queen, at which the late King EHd- 
ward was present. They also sang at Mrs. Ronald’s. 
Mrs. Potter Palmer’s, Sir Laurence Alma Tadema’s, the 
American Embassy, and many other places of the kind. 
In America they have sung at the White House for Mrs. 
Roosevelt’s guests, at Newport and at Bar Harbor. They 
will sing at Beverly in August at one of the fashionable 
summer cottages. 
