8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
June 16, 1916. 
Gardens at “Uplands” Among Most Beautiful on North 
Shore 
ARE beauty has been added to the North Shore by the 
Frank Pierce Fraziers of New York in the little spot 
of old Japan that they have created “Uplands,” their 
West Manchester estate on Highland ave. 
No other place on the Shore is so admirably adapted 
to the setting of a Japanese garden as this place. The 
large green house standing high upon a rocky ledge, the 
long slope upon which the garden has been made at the 
foot, and the beautiful garden below which leads out to 
the public highway, all unite in forming an harmonious 
whole in which this little foreign spot uniquely fits. 
Work was begun upon the spot last November im- 
mediately after the Fraziers had ‘completed their. six 
months stay upon the Shore. ‘The rock in the hillside 
was blasted and used again in the creation of the artistic 
water basins, ferneries and other ornamentations. Nest- 
ling on the hillside at the upper part of the garden is the 
tea house, a truly Japanese-looking affair ‘built of cedar. 
A tall cedar tree was growing in the way of the tea house 
so Mr. Frazier kindly had the house built around it, and 
its solid trunk is a natural ornament in one side of the 
little house. Rugs, tables and Japanese lights will brighten 
the place in which there will be no more ideal spot for 
afternoon tea imaginable. From this tea house the long 
stretch down the hill, over the rustic basins, the Japanese 
plants and on through the long grape arbor and the rose 
arbor beyond form an entrancing picture, for which the 
immense willow trees and little pond are a fitting back- 
ground. 
The Japanese plants are imported. 
comprises about two acres on the hillside and among the 
striking plants are the red Japanese maples, the fern- 
leaf maple, the pink prunus, the azalia, lilies, floating hya- 
The garden 
cinths in the little ponds, and many others of rare beauty. 
No particular color scheme is attempted, but the flowers 
are planted to give mass effects of color. The white and 
yellow laburnam is very showy at this season. A con; 
tinous bloom will be kept up all summer by the skilful 
planting of flowers of different stages of blooming. The 
viola is one of the pretty woodsy- looking little flowers 
growing among the rocks and is an exclusive production. 
Many ‘small evergreens have been planted through the 
garden and.on up to the house, which is reached by a 
newly laid slab walk, At the right of the garden is a 
former rock garden which has been greatly enlarged and 
will be still further enlarged this coming winter. The 
hose is kept constantly playing upon the hillside, where 
the soil is despairingly thin, and nothing but the hardiest 
of native forestry has grown. 
An interesting bird basin has been made under the 
recently built large terrace at the house. Vines and plants 
are so arranged as to give a most natural appearance of 
growth around it, and water never had a more realistic 
trickling than that which fills the basin for North Shore 
robins. Gold fish will be placed in the garden basins 
later. : 
Down in the garden proper, the long grape arbor 
makes a striking appearance. It is built of gas pipes and 
covered on one side by white grapes and on the other by 
black grapes. By skilful management grapes are made 
to grow from the ground all the way up to the tip. of the 
vines on top of the arbor. A similar arbor has been con- 
structed this season on the near-by estate of Walter I). 
Denécre. 
Particular care is taken on the Frazier grounds to 
keep the water running in all of the various artificial 
The Rose Garden at “Uplands,” 
lv est Manchester, Summer home of 
Mr. and Mrs, Frank P. Frazier 
