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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