
Mt. Hood at Rhododendron time. 
“Mr. Barber's Inspiration in the Founding of 
Hoodacres’’ 
—Lincoln (Portland) 
The entire motif of the planting of Hoodacres is quite the 
opposite of the formal show garden type, whether it is of private 
estates or commercial displays. Every month of the year con- 
siderable color is in evidence, from the first morning days of 
spring's approach, when the winter aconite displays its yellow 
blossoms close to the earth, to the last rose of December. 
As a whole Hoodacres has for its axis a line of rose arches 
dividing it cross-wise for a distance of 300 feet. The naturalistic 
sunken pool with its rock garden sides is the key to the land- 
scape. 
An appropriate background to the whole are the verdant hills 
of the Evergreen State with the Majestic Columbia River but a 
mile northward from the garden. But the sentinel which dom- 
inates the entire landscape is the towering ever-white Mt. Hood 
to the east. 
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