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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 garden, 
in the centre of a flower-bordered grass plot, is a hand- 
somely carved fountain of Italian marble, with three 
stone lions grouped around its base, and arranged about 
in other plots are several additional marble fragments. 
The garden is truly delightful, and entirely secluded, 
and beyond it is the well planned tennis court, where 
raany exciting contests are held. 
At the time Mr. Meyer purchased the property, not 
The approach to the house from the road is along 
a broad, gravelled driveway that starts some little dis- 
tance to the right of the house site, and winds from be- 
tween stone gate posts, artistically draped with vines, 
en stretches of smooth shaven lawn, adorned with 
iaarble fragments brought from foreign lands, and 
dotted with grand old trees beneath whose wide spread- 
ing branches seats have been arranged, to the pretty 
entrance porch. 
The interior of the house is as attractive in its 
arrangement as the exterior, and from the newly de- 
signed hallway, finished in white, entrance is gained to 
the principal apartments of the first floor. 
THE MEYER LIBRARY 
a, flower or shrub was to be found on the premises. Be- 
ing an ardent lover of the beautiful, he spared no ex- 
tense to reclaim the land from its barren waste, and that 
the expenditure was well worth while is evident from the 
appearance of the grounds today. 
At one side of the stable, which flanks the house 
on the left, is arranged the small fruit and vegetable 
garden, entirely enclosed within a high, well-cared for 
hedge. Each path in this garden is bordered with low- 
growing flowers outlined with a narrow edge of greens- 
ward, and through the centre extends a pergola, forty 
fect in length, which is used as a grape arbor. 
Back of the house, on the slope of a hillside, en- 
sccneed in the midst of apple trees, is the children’s 
playhouse, and to the right is the pine tree nursery, 
which was started several years ago. Across the 
meadow that extends from the playhouse to the rail- 
road boundaries of the estate are the farm buildings 
and the superintendent’s cottage, connected with the 
main stable by means of a long, narrow path. 
To the left opens the dining-room, charming in its 
frish and furnishings, its walls adorned with fine en- 
eravings, as well as Dutch pastoral scenes, and several 
cups and other trophies of the hunt and of the golfing 
season. 
Just opposite is the morning-room, one of the most 
attractive apartments in the entire house, finished in 
a color scheme of green and white. Its walls are hung 
with ancestral portraits, and at one side is displayed 
a life-like picture of Mrs. Meyer, copied from a noted 
painting. Numerous autograph photographs of royalty 
are arranged about, and show the esteem in which the 
Meyers were held during their residence in foreign 
jiands, and included in the group is a fine picture of 
(Jueen Helena of Italy, who was an intimate friend of 
Mrs. Meyer during the latter’s sojourn in Rome. 
Opposite this apartment, and separated from it by 
a narrow hallway, is the drawing room, in red and 
white, directly overlooking the terrace. This room 
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HAVE YOU HEARD OF ESSEX THE BEAUTIFUL? 
All alone by itself, surrounded by high hills from which are the most beautiful views imaginable, forest, lake, and river with the white sand 
dunes and the ocean in the offing, with its miles of woodland drives, with most excellent facilities for boating and fishing making it a veritable 
Summer Paradise. This sounds like a dream but it is a living fact. 
B. FRANK RAYMOND, 
We have for sale Preperties of all sizes. 
- ESSEX, MASS. 
