Varied Gardens Fair 



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Entrance Porch and Gate to the Rose Garden at Yaddo. 



some idea of the symmetrical and simple garden 

 furnishings, as well as the profusion of climbing 

 vines that form the garden's boundaries. 



This book bears on the title-page a redrawing 

 of a charming old woodcut of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, a very good example of the art thought and 

 art execution of that day, being the work of a skil- 

 ful designer. It is from an old stilted treatise on 

 orchards and gardens, and it depicts a cheerful little 

 Love, with anxious face and painstaking care, 

 measuring and laying out the surface of the earth 

 in a garden. On his either side are old clipped 

 Yews ; and at his feet a spade and pots of garden 

 flowers, among them the Fritillary so beloved of all 

 flower lovers and herbalists of that day, a significant 



