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made good by contemplation of the best that either offers. And yet the 

 impression that the garden makes on those whose comments reach the 

 office, appears to be that of a place of beauty and it is often a matter 

 of surprise when I become critical of the dwarfing of individual 

 plants that attends their massing either in the open air or in the 



The Mausoleum. 



crowded plant houses, to find that excellent specimen plants of hun- 

 dreds of species are capable of disentanglement whenever they are 

 needed for any particular use or can be allowed adequate space. 



At the time of Mr. Shaw's death a fraction less than forty-five 



In the Parterre. 



acres of land were included in the garden, divided into : garden proper, 

 9.4 acres; arboretum, 20.5; fruticetum, 8; lawn about residence, 2.7; 

 grove about the mausoleum of the founder, who, by his own direction, 

 is buried on the grounds, 0.6; and vegetable garden the garden first 

 laid out by Mr. Shaw, at the rear of his house 3.5 acres. Though 



