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Fredensborg Castle, Famous utsr the Days of Old King Christian IX and Queen Louise as 
the Meeting-Place of Crowned Heads. The Above View is from the Marble 
Garden so Called from Its Numerous Statues and Monuments 
owners followed suit, and round about the country gardens were 
planted at nearly every manor, while near the towns a few wealthy 
merchants and agents built country houses in order to enj oy the sum¬ 
mer in freer surroundings. Denmark has a treasure of beauty in our 
old manor parks. But the present are not good times for large land- 
owners. Estates are parceled out, feudal and family estates are dis¬ 
continued, and it is doubtful whether there will long be any individual 
owners with enough means so that the old manor houses may keep 
their gardens, or whether these, too, after a time will be parceled out 
and disappear. It is a pity, too, that the new which grows up must 
necessarily be at the expense of so much of the old and treasured so 
that our joy in the new must always be mingled with sadness. 
But life goes on in other forms. Interest in gardening, and the 
