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nature can accomplish. Here are beautiful old vines 

 climbing far up into the tree tops, and clumps of 

 low-growing evergreen shrubbery, while spring-fed 

 woodland pools, in the valley windings, mirror lordly 

 old pines reaching out their evergreen branches from 

 the steep hillsides above. 



In many charming spots, unhindered nature has 

 accomplished all that could be desired. In other 

 places, where it has been necessary to remove briers 

 and underbrush, some fascinating glimpse of an old- 

 world garden has been introduced. Although quaint 

 architecture and garden craft have "worked wonders 

 in some of the open spaces, it is the succession of 

 garden surprises, discovered in secluded sections, 

 that appeal most strongly to the imagination and 

 tempt one to explore every foot of the magic woods. 



Fortunate is the visitor to this beautiful country 

 seat who on his first view of the woodland gardens is 

 charmed with the sight of an ox-team slowly wending 

 its way from one of the woods roads a genuine old- 

 fashioned country cart, drawn by two plump, well- 

 groomed oxen, and driven by a sunny-faced Scotch- 

 man, who beams good-will on all visitors as they 

 admire his charges. Not only are these splendidly 

 developed specimens of cattledom the particular 

 pride and delight of the owner, and also of all the em- 

 ployees of the estate, but neighboring property 



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