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detail, the power of Love. The Rose Garden is 
unusually large for a formal garden ; with its vistas 
and walks, the connected Daffodil Dell, and the 
Rock Garden, it fills about ten acres. But the 
Statue of Christalan in Rose Garden at Yaddo. 
estate is over eight hundred acres, and the house 
very large in ground extent, so the garden seems 
well-proportioned. This Rose Garden has an 
unusual attraction in the personal interest of every 
detail, such as is found in few American gardens of 
great size, and indeed in few English gardens. The 
