BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
certain Southern States, numerous gardens, beautiful with 
age, tell the story of the ardent garden lovers of earlier 
days, who had to send abroad for their green treasures 
which they planted and carefully tended, hopefully plan- 
ning for the future. Many such gardens with their choice 
shrubs and trees still stand as green memorials to those 
long-ago people who had time and money for this luxury. 
Since then the hardships following war have brought sad 
neglect to the beautiful places — the number we can never 
guess — many of which, however, are now being aroused to 
fresh life by new owners who appreciate the charm and 
dignity of an ancient home. 
Hidden away in some of the old plantations of the 
South, and scattered over the Eastern States, near Phila- 
delphia, along the Hudson River, and in parts of Mas- 
sachusetts, the best of the older gardens are found. 
Beautiful, too, while often beyond reach of the camera, 
are many of the more modern creations so skilfully and 
lovingly fashioned by men and women of later genera- 
tions. It is impossible to do justice in photography to 
some of them when certain conditions prevent the camera 
from being placed at a range favorable to getting a view 
of the larger portions in one photograph. Sometimes 
they are composed of three or four connecting sections, 
each bringing a surprised delight to the visitor passing 
from one to the other, but such an arrangement cannot 
be satisfactorily portrayed in a picture. 
One strange reason why some American gardens are 
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