July, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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A Forest Green Stain Is Used for the Woodwork 



stream and valley in New York, and which is to be kept in perpetuity 

 by the State for the use of its sovereign people. 



Wittenberg Park's crowning jewels are its streams of pure, clear, cold 

 waters, of which there are more than two miles within its limits. They 

 are alive with the finest specimens of the gamey Salvelinus fontinalis, the 

 genuine speckled brook trout of the Catskills. These streams spring 

 into life far away amid the rugged beauties and tangled foliage of the 

 Wittenberg and Cornell mountains, where here, there and everywhere, 

 under high moss-covered rocks, which are piled on each other in chaos, 

 are marvelous veins of water which trickle down, forming beautiful 

 mountain streams which flow through one of the most charming glens 

 in the world. For over a mile, as it winds and turns over in its rough, 

 rocky bed, it is a succession of impressive pictures, with cascades and 

 waterfalls innumerable, no two alike, and all beautiful and picturesque. 



In its darkest recesses where Mount Cornell and the Wittenberg 

 cast their deepest shadows, the scene is singularly wild, strange and deso- 

 late. It is only a few miles from civilization, yet with the exception of 



