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RG OMON Di MAND) INICELNA DY = an — —— a sze aie Ti e i- — e — — EZTET 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 themselves 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 admiration. 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 [95]
