BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



of our House of Representatives, it is made in a series 

 of horseshoe terraces leading down to a flat rectangular 

 stretch of ground. The walk from the entrance to the 

 garden passes first under a charming rustic arbor, and 

 then through a dense Box hedge in which some of the 

 bushes have grown so high that their branches form an 

 arch overhead . . . and when one emerges from the arch 

 of Box he finds spread before him in panorama the entire 

 garden . . . the Box-edged aisle down its centre and 

 every bed in flower. ... It must have been a rare gar- 

 den, for trees and shrubs sent to Mr. Madison by admirers 

 from all over the world were jealously guarded and nur- 

 tured." 



At Rose Hill the terraced garden, with its distant view 

 of hills and valley, is among the best-known places of this 

 section. Here the flowers, most carefully tended, bloom 

 considerably during the period from April to October, 

 which is unusually prolonged for a Southern garden. 

 Flowering plants and clipped evergreens border the broad, 

 grassy terraces and an air of simple stateliness pervades 

 this charming Virginia garden. 



Delightful indeed is the spacious formal garden at 

 Meadowbrook Manor, on the James River. So cleverly ar- 

 ranged is the combination of trees and flowers that the 

 latter do not suffer from near association with the trees 

 many of which are evergreens combining with the Box 

 border to gladden the winter garden with summer green, 

 and giving the livable, homey sense to this lovely enclosure 



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