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Four Mansions Await Tours By Gaslight

CAPE MAY - On the Friday evening opening of the city's Annual Tulip Festival, Mansions By Gaslight Tour will open four of New Jersey's most famous Victorian landmarks to the general public. This tour will be held 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC), this tour of the interiors of authentically restored vintage homes, each representing a different form of architecture and planning, offers a rare and intimate insight into Victorian lifestyles.

TICKETS FOR the Mansions By Gaslight Tour may be purchased at the Emlen Physick House, 1048 Washington St.. starting half an hour before tour time. In order to help tourgoers get from one house to another, MAC's trojjpy-bus will run on a cdntinuous transit loop. Tour-goers intending to take the trolley to all four houses should start at the Physick House no later than 8 p.m. HOUSES OPEN on the tour include: The Emlen Physick House, designed by famous architect Frank Furness, a Victorian House

Museum, is the headquarters of the MidAtlantic Center for the Arts. The Abbey (Columbia Avenue and Gurney 1 Street), built in 1869 for a Pennsylvania coal baron, is an outstanding example of Gothic Revival Architecture. It features a 60-foot tower, etched ruby glass windows, and some of the most elegant forma! rooms in town. THE MAINSTAY Inn, 635 Columbia Ave., was built in 1872 as a posh gentlemen's gambling club. It is a classic example of the Italianate Style, with 14-foot ceilings and wraparound verandas. The Wilbraham Mansion. 133 Myrtle Ave., began as a simple country farmhouse built in 1840. It Was expanded and Victorianized in 1900 by the wealthy Wilbraham i industrial family from ! Philadelphia to become the J massive structure it is to5 day. Its many rooms are ] filled with outstanding Vic- ^ torian furnishings. IN THE PAST year or so, a each house on the tour has „ gone through remarkable £ changes, (making them j well worth a repeat visit): £ The Physick House has : received new carpeting in the formal parlor and ■ music room, a seven-piece I matched parlor set for the I formal parlor, a gilt harp » for the music room, and spectacular new wall and ' ceiling papers for Dr. ^ Physick 's library. The Abbey's two parlors and dining room have been completely transformed with elaborate wall and ceiling papers (with work on the back parlor just being completed this winter). The Mainstay Inn made headlines last year with 19 patterns of wallpaper and stencilng that turned its entry hall into a Victorian fantasyland; while the Wilbraham mansion has added a new front portico and a huge rear addition enclosing its swimming pool. Planting In Masses ' For Effect C. Tulips, daffodils and ffll other Dutch bulb flowers make the greatest impact En on a garden when they are IjTi planted in masses. J Professional landscape rs I suggest that individual I plantings contain at least I 25 bulbs of each variety I This can become expensive I when quality bulbs are purSi chased at retail. S Some gardeners try to R. cut costs by purchasing soil called "bargain" bulbs Bi that sometimes turn up in A supermarkets and discount ■ stores. The usual results 9 are predictably poor. 3 DISCOUNTED bulbs 3 may be damaged or too H undeveloped to flower proH perly. Or they may not H come from Holland, the 9 country that sets the stanI dard for bulb quality. I In the north. October and | . November are the ideal I time for putting bulbs into R the ground. I I

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