Munsey's Magazine, July 1908

Harvey Sutherland's article "The Gardens of the Rich" examines how American millionaires channeled wealth into landscape design, commissioning grand estates with formal gardens. This photograph of the Italian Garden at the Hollis Hunnewell Estate in Wellesley, Massachusetts exemplifies the Gilded Age passion for cultivating European aesthetic traditions on American soil. Munsey's, founded in 1889, built its empire on illustrated articles and serialized fiction, pioneering the mass-market magazine format that influenced pulp publications to follow. The journal's blend of photography, reportage, and literary content shaped how adventure magazines would later visualize narrative worlds.