Title: The American garden
Identifier: americangarden121891broo (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Horticulture; Gardening
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : (s. n. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE HOMES OF HAYES AND GARFIELD. 199 gers alike are welcome to the grounds, and the laughter of merry children is heard as they romp about in the long summer days. The grove, which is the one feature of the home of ex-President Hayes, covers a tract of about thirty acres, and fronts upon one of the main avenues of the city of Fremont, Ohio, and lies about three- fourths of a mile distant from the center o f the town. The grove is a piece of native woodland, dense with a heavy growth of oaks, hicko- ries, hemlocks and other for- est trees. The house, a plain brick dwelling, roomy and c o mfo r table- looking, is al- most in the cen- ter of the grove, so far back from the entrance that it can hardly be seen when the trees are in full leaf. A circling driveway leads up to it and ends at the steps of a broad porch which crosses the en- tire front of the building. The grove has not been marred by any paltry devices of civilization. There are no rustic seats to torture the bones of comfort-seeking loungers; no summer-houses to belittle the great temple of the trees ; no signs to "keep off the grass." The surroundings are ex- quisitely neat. There is a good substantial turf be- neath the trees and in the open spaces where the trees have grudgingly made way for smooth lawns ;
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Or a Mass of Roses drives and walks wind throngh the grove, with here and there in open spaces a modest flower bed or a mass of roses from which one picks almost without stint. Besides the grove, the household contains more than an equal area of cultivated land. On this a thrifty orchard, an extensive garden, a few vines, grain field and meadow combine to supply the ma- terial needs of the home. The whole aspect of the place is wholesome ; a place in which a man may find rest for body and mind, and in which good work may be done. That it is not the home of an idler is indie ated by the business- like look of the library with its desk piled high with papers and correspon- d e n c e , the many books open at hand and the well- filled shelves, which are clearly not filled for show. The eight thousand v o1 - umes overflow the library proper and en- croach upon parlor and d rawing-room, and even are partly housed in the roomy and well-lighted attic which also serves in turn as the ex-president's work room. It is clearly a house that is lived in, not merely made the temporary abiding place of the owner, and in substantial sim- plicity is well worth studying and copying as an ex- ample of how an American sovereign should be housed.

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