NORTH SHORE BREEZE 9 
The herbaceous border consists mainly of hardy 
perennials, wisely arranged for perpetual continuation 
of bloom. It is edged twice yearly. For this purpose, 
the five hundred white pansies planted the first of April 
were replaced in June by five hundred white petunias 
which will remain in blossom until cut off by a very 
severe frost. 
Following the slope of the lawn, from the summer 
Louse already mentioned, to the dwelling house, a 
fight of ten granite steps leads to a perfectly level 
liwn adjoining the veranda, and enclosed upon two 
THE THATCHED SUMMER HOUSE IN THE BARNARD GARDEN 
sides by a brick terrace wall three feet high, and on 
the fourth side by a paling similar to the railing of 
the veranda. 
The granite coping of the terrace wall is decorated 
with large pans of Phyllis geranium, at intervals of 
ten feet. At the foot of the wall is a formal border three 
feet wide, consisting of three rows of bedding plants. 
The outer row is of centaurea candidissima, behind that 
a row of begonia erfordi, and against the wall standard 
heliotrope alternates with arbutilon. 
The two circles near the upland summer house were 
planted in April with annual silene, edged with myoso- 
tis. In June, the plants were replaced by Bar Harbor 
beauty betunia, edged with ageratum stella gurney. 
In the spring, these circles had for a background the 
C:gitalis purpurea alba but for fall blooming, this was 
replaced by Richard Wallace canna. 
Lying further along the northern slope, and still 
backed by shrubbery, are a bed of oenothera Youngii 
and a bed of delphinium, both to be later replaced by 
hardy chrysanthemums. Down the slope, in the direc- 
tion of the lower garden, is a great bed seventy feet by 
forty, filled with various ornamental conifers, inter- 
ningled with King Humbert cannas, and edged with 
pennisetum longistulum. More conifers are banked 
against south veranda, while the eastern terrace wall. 
is a perfect riot of blossoming perennials. 
West of the house lies the lower garden, reached 
by a flight of ten broad stone steps, with each side 
cuarded by a strong rustic railing and banked by shrub- 
bvry. The lawns in this lowland section are less broad 
than those upon the upland. The gravel paths at first 
siretch straight and smooth bordered by bright-hued 
flowers. To the left of the stone stairway lies an or- 
chard of dwarf trees; to the right, the vegetable garden, 
in squares and oblongs, running east and west, and still 
bordered with blossoms. The first bed contains such 
perennial vegetables as asparagus, sea kale, rhubarb, 
and globe artichoke. It is edged with a double row of 
white verbenas. 
The second bed is planted with annual vegetables, 
and bordered on two sides with yellow gaillardias and 
on the other two with verbena venosa. 
The third square contains the greenhouse, which is 
used for raising annauls and bedding plants, followed 
by a erop of English foremg melons. The remainder 
of the bed comprises dwarf fruit trees and bush fruits, 
having upon one side a row of trained espaliers, upon the 
other, salvia zurich, and across the end a border of 
blue asters. 
After the strawberry crop has been gathered from 
the fourth bed, the ground is planted entirely to brassi- 
cas, bordered in order, along the sides, with salvia 
zurich, pink asters, mixed zinnias, and celosia plumosa. 
The nearest side of the fifth square is occupied by 
a pergola, planted with grape vines. The remaining 
cround is devoted to various summer vegetables, the 
three sides having a row of espaliers, a row of cosmos, 
and a row of mixed hardy perennials. 
The sixth square contains the strawberry. bed for 
next year’s fruiting, and is edged with cosmos, salvia 
farinacea, viscaria, and the herbaceous border. 
On the south side, the herbaceous border is ar- 
vinged to match that which edges the fifth and sixth 
squares, the gravel path between the two borders being 
four hundred feet long. One-fourth of this entire dis- 
tence is covered by a pergola overgrown with climbing 
roses. 
The rose garden occupies nearly a central position 
in this lowland area. It contains one thousand hybrid 
teas, planted in* beds three feet wide, which are cut 
cut of the grass in ribbon-like strips that have a scroll- 
form, similar to a gigantic letter 8S. These scrolls extend 
entirely across the garden below the squares of vege- 
t-bles. This novel arrangement gives each rosebush the 
ac vantage of perfect exposure to air, sunshine, and 
sprays for destroying insects. 7 
Beyond the rose garden, the paths which connect it 
with the squares, and which have run so straight ur to 
this point, begin to curve and wind in a most alluring 
manner, serving to outline the English garden, the 
r ckery, the Alpine garden, and the water garden, and 
so continuing to the very banks of the river, where 
they lead to summer house and garden seats, in pleasant 
groves of birch and willow. 
The English garden consists of large formal beds, 
set in wide expanses of closely-cli-yed green turf. The 
tveatment followed with all these beds is that of com- 
l ning several colors, sometimes by analagous, but more 
trequently by contrasted, harmonies. To this end, just 
enough plants of the required color are intermingled 
with the mass of bloom that fills the central portion, 
but no fixed design is followed, and the eye is not wear- 
ied by following the lines of a set pattern. 
Thus, of the four beds that le across the broad 
path from the rose-garden, the first has a carpet of 
dwarf searlet verbena, edged with ledum carnea, and 
dotted with arbutilon and violet petunias, trained as 
standards; the second has a carpet of alyssum, edged 
with alternanthera rubra, and dotted with crimson 
¢vraniums and coleus golden bedder; the third has a 
carpet of mesembryanthemum, edged with ledum ear- 
nea, and dotted with pink geraniums and iresine; the 
feurth has a carpet of forenia, edged with yellow alter- 
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