The Demonstration Gardens

摘要

If you had attended a garden party at Falkirk in the 1920s, you would have strolled past exotic agaves and New Zealand flax, been shaded by huge Douglas-firs, Sierran redwoods, and bunya bunya trees, viewed the rock garden planted with azaleas and hydrangeas, and enjoyed masses of brightly colored annuals along the boxwood-lined drive. Your hosts would have been Mr and Mrs Robert Dollar; he was a lumber magnate who founded a shipping line and became one of the hundred richest men in the world, featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1928.