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American homes and gardens (1905)

New York, Munn and Co · leaf 266

An illustration from American homes and gardens, 1905, leaf 266
A carved-wood shrine for the adorned figure of the Virgin, earned in medievalprocessions. An appreciative traveler abroad is able to procure such thingsfor a fraction of what it would cost to duplicate them. On the right is thecircular hedge that screens ash-cans, etc. … At the entrance to the sunken garden are two busts of Madam du Barry andMadam de Pompadour. In the foreground is one of the four beds devotedto Japanese lilies narrow beds that line the inner walks this idea is carried out.Many varieties of iris, lilies, peonies, phlox, aquilegiae,small…

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