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growth. Perhaps the latter-named garden might 

 seem more suited to my pages, since it is more 

 advanced in growth and apparently more akin to 

 my subject ; but I wish to write specially of the 

 Rose Garden, because it is an unusual example 

 of what can be accomplished without aid of archi- 

 tect or landscape gardener, when good taste, care- 



Pergola and Terrace Walk in Rose Garden at Yaddo. 



ful thought, attention to detail, a love of flowers, 

 and intent to attain perfection guide the garden's 

 makers. It is happily placed in a country of most 

 charming topography, but it must not be thought 

 that the garden shaped itself; its beautiful propor- 

 tions, contour, and shape were carefully studied 

 out and brought to the present perfection by the 

 same force that is felt in the garden's smallest 



