"There is perhaps a very slight approach to something of a formal nature in the double herbaceous border of over 300 feet in length, hence its name "The Long Walk". From its 7 foot path, between the sloping borders each 12 feet wide, there is a vista across to the far blue hills of the north shore and from out the masses of blending colours in these borders there rise in broken waves literally thousands of Lilium regale to waft their fragrance over the land." Elsie Reford, "A Lily Garden in the Lower St. Lawrence Valley", 1949