It is the formal rose garden, season which de ud the enthusiasm, Is wu, undulated in parts to pri the effect of Since the park has been acquired only there alterations have been' effected winch would in no wise interfere with a still future development and extension of the bowntaries of the place. Chief among these processes of beautifying are those little valley places in the park, the happy inspirations of the land: eupe gardener. One in particular haz been flanked with small recess den is a distin garb of the a haekgroun which slopes down, on one side to the iris pond who: es to give it a effect both dist'netive and artistic.
Each recess has ferent variety of plant or shraf:
one, there ix collection of bam boos; in another. azaleas, and lilies, while in another are the vivid hues of trop'eal plants.
Wilderness and Formatity The aims of the municipal gartners in hire of the park are three. First, they want to keep a section Of it' Tike a wild garden consisting of woodlands, meadows, streams and, Jakes as nearly rural' as possible. This will provide wide vistas and expansive landscapes, to say nothing Rose Time 1 Jesspre.o 1s purple Japanese iris grow in stately! array to remind one in season that, despite the obvious charm of the ephemeral rose, the iris too has its royal purple. "Cherry trees and maples guard: the mounds of the garden, and a pergola that combines the relaxation of a summer house has been a happy afterthought to the garden.
But not even the rose garden can hold for long the wanderer about the lawns of Jessfield. He admits the soft luxuriance of the season's eabage rose which spills its petals upon the bed with exuberant profusion, none the less generous to the onlooker, if lacking in the poignancy of rose-scent. Instinetively one joins the endless throng of walk-cers, who despite numbers cannot overcome the overshadowing of themselves by a well-groomed Nature, as they wander, perhaps toward the space reserved for tea tables at the hour of refreshment.
There fs a sandy avenue of pine! woods which cast a cooling, shadow over the mind and within which one forgets the multitudes on the lawns Just beyond. Pines, of all trees, Always forget that there are human taker by Mr, C.D. Kay reproduced here) multitudes and brood edly in silent places,
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