BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
English gardens when we consider the poetical beauty 
found in most of these illustrations? 
Unfortunately, except in a few localities, our climate 
does not encourage the perfect development of the choicest 
of the evergreen hedge-plants, and yet with time we can 
produce some moderately fine effects in hedges. We may 
not hope soon to rival the best of the foreign gardens that 
have been maturing through generations of continuous 
care. Favored not only by climate but by riches unknown 
to the early landowners of our States, the best of the old 
gardens across the sea stand for the combined dreams of 
the many minds which gradually evolved them, the loving 
handiwork of innumerable patient toilers who have succes- 
sively ministered to them. 
Just as there are gardens peculiar to other nations, 
Dutch, French, Italian, etc., might we not give serious 
consideration to evolving some day a type peculiarly 
American, inasmuch as it would embody the poetic and 
artistic sense of our country? Such a result might be at- 
tained even should we claim the privilege of our individual 
liberty, to plant, each one for the expression of his own 
soul, thus keeping our gardens distinctly variable and 
original in type, and so ultimately national. 
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