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Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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for the dogs, a special stable for the poloponies, chicken houses and duck houses, conservatories and storage houses for bay trees,a dairy, and special houses for the men in charge of each department. Yet all these building features pale before the lovely attractiveness of the woods anddrives. No less than ten miles of bridle paths—quite wide enough for a carriage—traversethe hills and valleys of this lovely estate, in which both nature and art have been combinedin a thoroughly delightful manner, and so happily that the cultivated borders of thedriveways—^beautifully planted with flowering shrubs and greened with well-trimmed grass—merge naturally into the wilder beauty of the forests which still cover much of the land.There is true wildness in these woodlands, and Mrs. Mackays own little rustic cottage, deepin the woods, and placed jtist where the views across the cotmtry are finest, is a tinily woodretreat from the more modern splendors of the palace on the hill summit. (35)
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