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embraces broad terraces, set in the midst of closely 
clipped lawns, below which are the garden bed, with 
here and there a marble fragment, and beyond a sweep 
of smooth sward reaching to the water’s edge. 
Another beautiful garden of a type still different 
from these four is found at the summer home of Mr. 
Gardiner M. Lane, President of the Art Museum in 
Boston, and son of the late Professor Lane of Harvard 
University, and is located at Dana’s Beach. 
This garden, like the one just described, is very 
extensive. <A trellised arch marks the point of division 
between the beds intermixed with shrubbery of the 
carden proper and the handsome Italian garden sur- 
rounded by a high ornamental fence. On the other side 
‘of this garden lies the tennis court, hidden from view 
by a pergola of trellis work draped in vines. To.the 
left, herbaceous plants hide the cliff as well as the 
sandy sea beach below it. 
The central feature of the Italian garden is a large 
space, fully seventy feet on each side, in the middle of 
which has been placed a round pool, twenty feet in 
diameter. This is 
surrounded by 
four separate 
pools, which oc- 
cupy the corners 
of the square. 
Each of these ba- 
sins is several feet 
deep, and defined 
along the water’s 
edge in marble. 
The circular cen- 
tral depression is 
earefully de- 
signed to contain 
a carved fountain 
of Italian marble. 
In the four corner 
basins, numerous 
goldfish sport 
about among the 
stems of aquatic 
plants which grow 
here in great pro- 
fusion. There are 
many water lilies, of great variety and beauty, whose 
cup-like leaves, floating on the surface, form a pretty 
setting for the blossoms above. Gravel walks about 
three feet wide, bisect the four sides and surround the 
central pool, while conduits, built beneath these walks, 
enable the fish to swim freely from one of the five basins 
to another. 
The many-hued Japanese iris lends itself admirably 
to the task of beautifying the walks beside the fountain, 
‘with well-defined effect. The plan followed in planting 
this garden seems to be to mass the different flowers 
together for borders, with due regard to difference in 
height, while each variety is kept separate in the formal 
Leds that occupy the center. This garden was designed 
hy Mr. Olmstead. 
Messrs. Little and Brown of Boston, planned the 
beautiful garden of Mr. Dudley L. Pickman at Beverly 
Cove. It lies at the left of the mansion, and is ap- 
proached from the veranda, The ground, which was 
criginally sloping, has been filled in at one side. At 
the back has been built a semi-circular high brick 
protection wall, below which is the upper terrace, which 
leads by step to the garden with its picturesque lily 
pond at one side. 
Garden of Mrs. E. C. Swift’s Estate, Pride’s Crossing. 
Through the center of the garden.runs a straight 
path, which ends in an arch overgrown with vines and 
rambler roses. This path is bordered upon each side 
with lilies, set in a profusion of low-growing blossoming 
plants, producing perfect harmony of color. 
From the arch, a flight of steps descends to the 
lower terrace. This is lined on the one side with pots 
of graceful ferns, while on the balustrade which defines 
the garden, stand potted bay trees. The graveled ter- 
race walk overlooks the valley and wild garden below. 
These three elevations of the circular upper terrace, 
the lower terrace, and the wild garden, give a variety 
of interest that is remarkable for a garden of its size. 
Vines clamber over the high protection wall at the 
back of the upper terrace, and over the balustrade in 
front. Low blossoming plants of delicate tints, such as 
tea roses and purple heliotrope, line each side of the 
semi-circular graveled walk, while directly below the 
balustrade lies the crescent shaped lily pond, on whose 
surface float the broad leaves of the nymphaea with its 
snowy blossoms, contrasted with the delicate azure of 
the water hya- 
einth. Goldfish 
sport about this 
pond, which has a 
marble edge orna- 
mented with mar- 
ble vases filled 
with pink and 
white geraniums. 
Drooping from 
the terrace, 
masses of delicate 
Japanese roses 
make a showy 
background for 
the dainty pond 
below. 
At Coolidge 
Point, Maneches- 
ter, the residence 
of Hon. T. Jeffer- 
son Coolidge 
shows a fine Ital- 
ian garden. It 
lies to the left of 
the lawn, entirely hidden from view of the courtyard, 
and protected from harsh sea winds by a high stone 
wall and a thick growth of trees. i 
A gravel walk leads across one end to a picturesque 
iea house, ensconced in a bower of flowering vines. 
This tea-house is of rustic construction, built on a 
shghtly higher level than the garden itself, and it is 
cquipped with quaint marble seats and a curiously 
carved marble table. Great antique vases flank the 
entranee upon both sides. 
At right angles to the teahouse path, runs another 
to the fountain just discernible in the distanee. This 
path winds past masses of rhododendrons and Rosa 
rugosa, outlined against a spruce hedge; past the 
bridge, where murmurs from the brooklet reach the ear; 
to a high retaining wall, where it turns sharply and 
connects with the fountain path. Here vines, shrubs, 
colden glow, hollyhocks, and other herbaceous plants 
cluster to form an enchanting border. 
Like the teahouse, the fountain stands upon slightly 
ligher ground than the garden proper. A short flight 
cf stone steps, guarded on each side by leopards of 
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