gardens, 
June 23, 1916, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 9 
Picturesque Norton’s Point at Manchester 
N Norvon’s Porn’, 
of the most interesting 
One belongs to the William A. 
West Manchester, are located two 
gardens on the North Shore. 
Tuckers of “The Moor- 
ings” and the other to the Ezra C. Fitches of “River- 
house.” The Tucker garden is a formal garden while the 
Fitch garden is a natural rock garden. 
The point is reached by one of the most picturesque 
bridges imaginable, made of cement, and arching the rail- 
road, the drive across it leading to the West Manchester 
road. It is a private bridge and replaces a former wooden 
one built by the late George Hood, Mr. Tucker and Mr. 
Fitch. 
The formal garden at ‘The Moorings” is the delight 
of all who pass through Manchester by train, for it Hes 
close to the tracks and spreads out ina lovely panorama, 
typical of the town they are entering. The garden is only 
of a few years’ growth and its beauty will be more than 
doubled when the fine pergola next to the water is cov- 
ered with vines as planned. The garden was made from 
swainpy lowland, has been walled in, and that not prov- 
ing strong enough to keep out the tide, a dike has been 
built which prevents the salty water from destroying the 
foliage. This dike is to be planted with flowers which 
will surely look attractive growing so near the water’s 
edge. An interesting old Norway maple tree is standing 
at one side of the garden. ‘This tree is demonstrating 
the fact that a tree can live without its heart. Mr. 
Tucker disliked to lose the fine old specimen, but since 
the decayed heart has been replaced with the proper | 
material, the tree seems as verdant as ever. 
Just across from this garden one enters the exquisite 
little rockery which is the most beautiful part of the 
Fitch garden at “Riverhouse.” It has a wealth of flowers 
of all varieties growing among the rocks. A patch of 
blue forget-me-nots is very striking among the rocks as 
are the viola encircling the fountain in the Tucker garden, 
Perched high on the “rocks in the rock garden is a little 
summer house from which fine views are seen. The view 
from here across the long and rolling sweep of lawn, 
seemingly a natural amphitheatre, up to the house is 
truly ideal. Crossing the long stretch of grass one comes 
to another cosy summer house from which the view down 
to the rock garden is just as alluring as any to be found. 
These cosy little nooks are favorite resorts of the family 
and they spend several hours daily in the enjoyment of 
the lovely place. Besides the beautiful flowers which 
surround the house, a large vegetable garden is main- 
tained on the place. The rose garden is interesting witn 
its four arches over which the Dorothy Perkins will soon 
be abloom. _ 
“Riverhouse” has been the home of the Fitches for 
about twenty years. They have added to the original 
house on the place until now their home is one of the 
most picturesque to be found. The place is remarkably 
situated on the point of land jutting out into Manchester 
harbor and the view from every’ window in the house 
discloses new beauties. Smith’s Point, the Marblehead 
shores and the intervening islands with the two tall light- 
houses, “Mr. and Mrs. Baker,” are some of the interest- 
ing sights. The house has many charming little piazzas 
with quaint furnishings, from the cosy seats of which 
the sea and Manchester harbor are entrancing pictures. 
On Norton’s Point is another admirably situated 
home lying between the Tucker and Fitch homes. This 
belongs to Mrs. James D. Safford and was the former 
Hood house. These three homes and their fine gardens 
on this isolated spot reached by bridge and water are 
particularly typical of the beauty of the North Shore. 
“THe CuiMNeys,” the house of the seven chimneys, 
is Manchester’s rival to Salem’s ‘House of the Seven 
Gables.” ‘The showy and attractive white house with its 
big chimneys, all painted white, rises in a queenly and 
dainty fashion on the high rocks overlooking Dana’s 
Beach. Mrs. Gardiner Martin Lane and her daughter, 
Miss Katharine Lane, came to their home on June %, 
after Miss Katharine’s school had closed. ‘The gardens 
at the Lane home are among the finest on the Norti 
Shore. Gardens can well be applied to this place, for 
there is the lovely formal garden overlooking the sea, 
with its pergola at one end, Lid the formally eae out water 
garden forming the greater part of the center. Then 
there are the terraced gardens leading down from the 
formal gardens, the vegetable garden, the rock garden, 
and the native ferneries and other semi-wild plants whic? 
form a delightful place by themselves in the woods. The 
most interesting thing in the garden is the planted wail 
separating the formal garden from the first terrace. The 
garden was begun about thirteen years ago, but the wall 
was made only four years ago. Planted walls are one vi 
the attractions of the gardens i in Switzerland, but are rare 
in-this country. It was from a Swiss wall that the late 
Mr. Lane had the wall patterned after, and most of the 
plants and shrubbery on the wall came from seeds grown 
in Switzerland. Two unique and artistically arranged 
summer houses, one fitted out in green furniture and 
lighted by a quaint old light, complete this lovely set of 
The tennis court is especially attractive and 1s 
entered from the main or formal garden. It also faces 
the sea and gives the players a full view of that wonder- 
ful stretch of water Salem and Marblehead 
Way. 
scenery over 
The Summer Salesroom of the Boston Industrial 
School for Crippled and Deformed Children opened last 
week in Manchester at 28 Central st. The pupils are 
enabled to wholly or in part support themselves from the 
sale of the many novelties offered, including children’ 
frocks, everything for baby, household articles, cane andl 
basket work and many miscellaneous articles. Orders 
are also taken for re-caning chairs and for other work. 
The committee in charge of the fe shop includes 
Dr. Joshua C. Hubbard, Mrs. H. O. Colby, Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward L. Kent, Mrs Balioe eae Mrs. Philip 
Little, Mrs. George S. Mumford, Mrs. Philip 3. Parker, 
Gali Taylor win ee S. Winslow and Mrs. H. de Forest 
Lockwood. The president of the society is Joseph Graf- 
ton Minot, and the summer residents all along the Shore 
are intensely interested in the prosperity of the little shop, 
Jocated so centrally in the village of Manchester. Mrs. 
Timothée Adamowski and Mrs. Lester Leland were co- 
chairmen of the entertainment committee of the winter’s 
work in Boston. 
At tea one day the modern girl complained because 
she could not be an aviator in the army. 
“Oh,” she sighed, blowing a cloud of cigarette smoke 
from her pretty lips—‘Oh, if heaven had only made me a 
man!” 
There is no grace ina benefit that sticks to the fingers. 
