| The Flower Garden designed in the Italiante
style, was laid out by Joseph
Chamberlain in 1896. Chamberlain, husband of Mary Endicott,
was an influential British politician who visited his wife’s
family in 1896 and 1898. As originally designed, the gardens were
bordered on the east by a barberry hedge, the north by rustic cedar
posts of climbing roses, the south by a rustic cedar pergola, and
the west by the buckthorn of the Old Fashioned Garden. Current
photo of the Flower Garden Fountain (below). |