THE DAHLIA GARDENS 
The Dahlia Gardens are five miles south of Poughgkeepsie on the 
Albany Post Road. Signs are on both sides of the Post Road at the 
entrance. Again, the entrance is about four hundred feet north of the 
road to Vassar College; and about six hundred feet south of the Oak 
Grove Grange building. 
The Gardens are pare of a tract of 85 acres of land, on a hill 270 
feet above the Hudson River. 
This site afifords a panoramic view of the scenic valley of the Hudson. 
Seven miles to the north can be seen the Mid-Hudson Bridge at Pough¬ 
keepsie, and some forty miles beyond “away to the west of the river,” 
the Catskill Mountains; nine miles south is Mt. Beacon of the Fishkill 
Mountains; eighteen miles to the southwest the Highlands of the Hudson; 
many miles to the northeast are the Berkshires of Connecticut and 
Massachusetts; and still further north, the Green Mountains of Vermont. 
On your way up or down the Hudson this summer, stop and see the 
view; and in the early fall, the dahlias in bloom. Either sight requires 
many adjectives and adverbs to express their grandeur. 
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