The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . (Plwto by While) Mc-iiiorial Cale ilie famous grouiuls and garden of thecollege, so harmoniously in keeping with thearchitectural features of its older buildings,are deserxing of mention. In the develop-ment of the grounds Dr. Xott took a greatinterest. Lnder his direction were plantedmany of the trees—rows of stately elms, black-walnuts, honey locusts—that border the pathsand drives and shade its grassy acres. Inthe college garden there towers an ancientelm, which, although its sapling days anted
The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . (Plwto by While) Mc-iiiorial Cale ilie famous grouiuls and garden of thecollege, so harmoniously in keeping with thearchitectural features of its older buildings,are deserxing of mention. In the develop-ment of the grounds Dr. Xott took a greatinterest. Lnder his direction were plantedmany of the trees—rows of stately elms, black-walnuts, honey locusts—that border the pathsand drives and shade its grassy acres. Inthe college garden there towers an ancientelm, which, although its sapling days antedateby several centuries the founding of the col-lege, has long been known as the Xott Dr. Charles Alexander RichmondPresident of Union Colleye Lnder this \enerable survixor of the forestjjrimeval the annual class day exercises areheld, and it occupies a revered place in thecollege traditions. The garden in which thiselm stands is one of the most attractive spotsin the college grounds. Writing of it, Parsons, the noted landscape gard-ener. sa\^s: Since my visit to Union College, the onememor)- that persistently stays with me is thequaint old garden; it had so much of thecharacter of a natural, secluded but charmingnook in the woods. It was human, too, andvery American. No pretense; just a few old-fashioned shrubs with wild flowers at theirfeet, little stretches of turf and an unpretend-ing brook running through it out into the littlexalley. lying like an amphitheatre with grandold elms oxerarching. How fine a combina-tion I I confess I like it better than the oldgarden at Xew College, I have seenthis garden at Xew College. Oxford, and it iscertainly l
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