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growth. Perhaps the latter-named garden might 
seem more suited to my pages, since it is more 
advanced in growth and apparently more akin to 
my subject ; but I wish to write specially of the 
Rose Garden, because it is an unusual example 
of what can be accomplished without aid of archi- 
tect or landscape gardener, when good taste, care- 
Pergola and Terrace Walk in Rose Garden at Yaddo. 
ful thought, attention to detail, a love of flowers, 
and intent to attain perfection guide the garden’s 
makers. It is happily placed in a country of most 
charming topography, but it must not be thought 
that the garden shaped itself ; its beautiful propor- 
tions, contour, and shape were carefully studied 
out and brought to the present perfection by the 
same force that is felt in the garden’s smallest 
