[Illustration: PLATE 14 "Weld," Brookline, Mass. Mrs. Larz Anderson _From a photograph by Thomas Marr and Son_] [Illustration: PLATE 15 Wellesley, Mass. H. H. Hunnewell, Esq. _From a photograph by Wurts Bros._] [Illustration: PLATE 16 "Holm Lea," Brookline, Mass. Professor C. S. Sargent _From a photograph by The J. Horace McFarland Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 17 "Fairlawn," Lenox, Mass. Miss Kneeland _From a photograph by William Radford_] [Illustration: PLATE 18] [Illustration: PLATE 19 "Fairlawn," Lenox, Mass. Miss Kneeland _From photographs by William Radford_] [Illustration: PLATE 20 "Bellefontaine," Lenox, Mass. Giraud Foster, Esq. _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 21 "Bellefontaine," Lenox, Mass. Giraud Foster, Esq. _From a photograph, copyright, by the Detroit Publishing Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 22 "Bellefontaine," Lenox, Mass. Giraud Foster, Esq. _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 23 "Overloch," Wenham, Mass. J. A. Burnham, Esq. _From a photograph by Miss M. H. Northend_] [Illustration: PLATE 24 "Fernbrooke," Lenox, Mass. Thomas Shields Clark, Esq. _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 25 "Chesterwood," Glendale, Mass. Daniel Chester French, Esq. _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 26 "Riverside Farm," Tyringham, Mass. Mrs. Banyer Clarkson] [Illustration: PLATE 27 "Riverside Farm," Tyringham, Mass. Mrs. Banyer Clarkson _From photographs by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 28 "Riverside Farm," Tyringham, Mass. Mrs. Banyer Clarkson _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 29 "Naum Keag," Stockbridge, Mass. Joseph H. Choate, Esq. _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 30 "Brookside," Great Barrington, Mass. Mrs. H. Hall Walker _From a photograph lent by Ferruccio Vitali_] [Illustration: PLATE 31 "Rock Maple Farm," Hamilton, Mass. George von L. Meyer, Esq. _From a photograph by Miss M. H. Northend_] [Illustration: PLATE 32 Brookline, Mass. Doctor Stephen Weld _From a photograph by The J. Horace McFarland Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 33 Longfellow's Garden, Cambridge, Mass. _From a photograph by The J. Horace McFarland Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 34 Old Witch House, Salem, Mass. _From a photograph by G. A. Spence_] RHODE ISLAND Limited space permits but a suggestion of the various types of planting along the Atlantic coast, which promises to become almost a continuous garden by the sea from New Jersey to Maine. Rhode Island contains some of the most magnificent places in the country, the majority of them situated near bay or sea, where they thrive in congenial environment. The quality of the climate as it affects plant life will be easily realized after reading of the climatic conditions of Massachusetts as well as of those to the south, on Long Island, for instance.