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For the flower gardens of Cheswick he has nothing but 

 praise. 



"On the other hand," he says, "the flower gardens 

 are magnificent. The beds are so thinly planted 

 that each separate plant has room to spread, except- 

 ing in those beds which are entirely filled with one 

 sort of flower. In them, the chief aim is the perfec- 

 tion of the whole, and they are consequently by far 

 the most beautiful." 



To emphasize more fully the value of the broad, 

 simple, and wholly natural idea of making a garden, an 

 example is shown from Union College, Schenectady, New 

 York State. There is no pretence here : plenty of trees 

 and shrubs with peonies and other old-fashioned flowers 

 springing abundantly at their feet; little stretches 

 of turf between the flowers and the walk; then almost 

 out of sight a brook rimning under a bridge of plain 

 boards out into a small grassy hollow, lying in an 

 amphitheatre under high overarching elms. The 

 Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 

 Union College, Isaac W. Jackson, commenced to make 

 this garden in the early thirties of the last century, and 

 his daughter, Mrs. Benedict, still cherishes it with lov- 

 ing care. 



I doubt not the flowers of that garden sweet 

 Rejoiced in the sound of her gentle feet; 

 I doubt not they felt the spirit that came 

 From her glowing fingers thro' all their frame.' 



* The Sensitive Plant, John Keats. 



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