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Entrance Porch and Gate to the Rose Garden at Yaddo. 
some idea of the symmetrical and simple garden 
furnishings, as well as the profusion of climbing 
vines that form the garden's boundaries. 
This book bears on the title-page a redrawing 
of a charming old woodcut of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, a very good example of the art thought and 
art execution of that day, being the work of a skil- 
ful designer. It is from an old stilted treatise on 
orchards and gardens, and it depicts a cheerful little 
Love, with anxious face and painstaking care, 
measuring and laying out the surface of the earth 
in a garden. On his either side are old clipped 
Yews ; and at his feet a spade and pots of garden 
flowers, among them the Fritillary so beloved of all 
flower lovers and herbalists of that day, a significant 
