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His garden as a wonder shown no Box Tree has like these you own.
And this I think is quite a pity because his garden is so pretty.”
“I have just seen for the many hundredth time the most
wonderful of gardens. It would take more than the length
_ of this paper to describe it properly. It has a century and
more behind it—the roses in one border are the same.
which were originally planted there when the grandparents
of the family, as a young married couple, established them¬
selves and made a home for themselves and their posterity.
There, flowers appear in all due seasons and a well-kept
greenhouse carries the winter plants and shrubs too tender to
stand the cold of the open borders. Walks, fringed with
lilies and violets, gladioli and pansies; trellises covered
with climbing rose-bushes; rows of grapevines, now budding
into leaf, abound on all sides.
’ The most striking thing, however, about it is the noble
‘box walk’ formed by the double line of great box-trees,
beginning at the entrance and extending away to the far side
of the garden, where a green bank, bathed in sunshine,
gleams in the distance, through an arcade whose graceful
curve reminds one of the arch of the Natural Bridge.
"An examination of the individuals composing the group
now bordering on the century-mark brightens one’s admira¬
tion. Interlacing branches form the beautiful arch within,
while without, the massed effect of the rich-green alignment
mounting heavenward is most effective—each tree in its
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