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Title: The American garden
Identifier: americangarden121891broo (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Horticulture; Gardening
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : (s. n. )
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THE GARDENS OF NEWPORT. 325 and present a striking appearance. The flower- buds are in shape something hke those of the tea rose, but several inches in circumference, and when partially opened, tinted with bright carmine. As the buds expand, the petals are creamy white, sometimes delicately shading off to pink, and when fully grown measuring eight to ten inches across. The seed-pod is, as might be expected from the size of the flower, large, and somewhat in the form of an inverted funnel, the numerous seeds in each being about the size of kernels of corn. In the east they are often used as food, this being though situated on the line of Bellevue avenue, is al- most hidden from observation. The illustration,page 327, shows the walk,between the avenue and the cot- tage, which is bordered with trees, mostly tall spruces with interlacing branches which afford a dense shade at all hours of the day. The house itself stands in the broad sunshine, and its immediate surroundings afford fine displays of floral skill. A frontiersman might speak of the place as "an opening in the woods," so dense are the tree growths on every side, but he could scarcely find words to describe the garden and small lawn. This point once reached,
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Side view of the Lily pond. the Egyptian bean of Pythagoras, though not the lotus fruit of fable and story, of which the world has so fully heard. This circular pond, not more than eight to ten feet across, furnishes flowers dur- ing a large part of the summer, and is always beautiful. There is around it, planted in earth, a border of the new low-growing French cannas, above which rise the lotus leaves and blossoms, giving a combination of colors worthy of the highest ad- miration. The summer residence of Mrs. Paran Stevens, there is revealed a collection of rare and rich flow- ers, native and foreign. Here more than in most places the greenhouse plants predominate. There are, comparatively, very few flowering shrubs and no attempt whatever to make use of bright and curious foliage for the production of desired effects. If the wall of trees on every side were made to pre- sent a greater diversity as regards form and color, the picture would be still more striking. This de- fect appears in many other gardens which were planted twenty or more years ago, for not until

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