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The Prize Garden of George E. Barnard at Ipswich 
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nenthera, and dotted with snow storm petunia and 
chamaepence discantha. 
The remaining beds which complete the English gar- 
den are: first, a flanking bed, one hundred feet long, 
carpeted with blue verbenas, edged with dwarf white 
petunias, and dotted with datura wrightii; second, 
thirty feet long, carpeted with tall yellow and edged 
with dwarf yellow antirrhinum, dotted with King Hum- 
bert canna; third, seventy feet long, edged with orange 
nemesia, and dotted with blue salniglossis; fourth, one 
h.ndred feet long, carpeted with pink antirrhinum, 
edged with pink saponaria, and dotted with Richard 
Wallace canna; fifth, thirty feet long, carpeted and 
elged with crimson nemesia, is dotted with cleome 
pungens; sixth and seventh, arranged on each side 
of the path leading to the rockery, and planted alike, 
are earpeted with dwarf white petunias, dotted with 
silvia, and edged with dwarf white verbena and white 
saponaria, alternating. 
The path that leads toward the left brings us to 
the rock garden, planted with common annuals and 
hardy perennials, as well as with many rare and un- 
usual alpine specimens. A rustic bridge crosses the lily 
pond, the nymphaea, with its broad leaves and fragrant 
tLlossoms, lifts its head above the quiet water. 
A few steps farther on, stands another rustie sum- 
mer house with thatched roof and cedar supports, from 
the door of which can be seen the whole expanse of 
the lower garden. 
A GOLD WATCH MADE IN 1648. 
ing employment 
Thought to be Oldest in the World. 
Charles E. Lovegreen, of Man- 
chester, Mass., is the fortunate pos- 
sessor of an antique pocket time- 
piece, so old he declares it must be 
after the 
the wateh. He 
sO gre 
working on pleasure yachts, which 
work he continues now at intervals. 
It was twenty-three 
while on a visit to his old home, and 
of his father in 
1870, that he came into possession of 
has but reeently 
death 
boat yard, case and movement were made en- 
tirely by hand. 
Seeds from Foreign Lands. 
A high record importation of 20 
million dollars’ worth of flaxseed in 
the fiseal year 1911 is indicated by 
the records of the Bureau of Statis- 
years ago, 
the father of all watches. Of its an- 
tiquity there can be no dispute, for 
it is so well preserved that all the 
figures and lettering on the case are 
as distinct as when it was made, 
more than two and one-half centur- 
les ago. 
It was made in England in 1648, 
although the maker’s name does not 
appear, and it is in such a perfect 
state of preservation that it is still 
in good running condition. 
Mr. Lo.egreen has no doubt but 
that the famous timepiece has been 
a family heirloom for many genera- 
tions, but unfortunately he can trace 
it back but two generations with 
brought it to public notice. 
Someone referring, in the Boston 
Globe to an old watch made in 1691, 
claiming it to be the oldest in ex- 
istence, prompted Mr. Loyegreen to 
tell of the one he has, which is many 
years older. 
The ease of this ancient watch is 
12k. gold, and the dial of a strik- 
ingly handsome design, having a 
raised figure in blue and gilt enamel 
on a background of white. The 
numbers 10,565 and 973 appear on 
the case. It has a chain movement, 
key wind and key set, the works 
opening back on a hinge. Compe- 
tent jewelers have declared that the 
tics, Department of Commerce and 
Labor, now completed for the ten 
months ending with April, 1911. 
During that period the imports of 
flaxseed or linseed aggregated 814 
million bushels, compared with a 
little over three million bushels last 
year and 53,000 bushels in the corre- 
sponding period of 1909. The 
growth in value is even greater, the 
ten month’s figures of the current 
fiscal year being 1634 million dollars, 
against 5 million in 1910 and but 
$73,625 in 1909. The estimated im- 
portation of 20 million dollars’ 
worth of flaxseed in the fiscal year 
which ends with the present month 
will he bequeathed it to his son, 
any certainty, his paternal grand- 
father, Frederick Lovegreen, who 
was a native of Carlsham, Sweden, 
where he lived all his life, being the 
possessor during his lifetime. In his 
Charles M. Lovegreen, who came 
into, possession of it at his death. 
The son also spent the greater part 
of his life in Carlsham, being a mas- 
ter mariner in the government ser- 
vice. At his decease his son, Charles 
E. Lovegreen, received it by will 
from his father, following out the 
custom of many families of the 
old countries in disposing of family 
heirlooms. 
Charles E. had in the meantime 
sought new fields in free America, 
leaving Carlsham in 1877 and going 
to Savannah, Ga., sailing in the 
coasting trade a number of years, 
and from there went to Gloucester, 
Mass., where he followed the fisher- 
ies for twenty years. Eight years 
ago he removed to Manchester, find- 
