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Caption: Dedication - Allerton Park
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K ? In the heart of the rolling black-soiled woodlands of the Sangamon VaBey, Robert Afterton fashioned one of the most beautiful estates in the Middle West. Here, through the ministry of architecture, sculphe illustrated how art and nature may be htrnrlrrt for the defight and edification of man. Here he crcaSa a scries of gardens, formal and informal, each a splendid example of garden with statuary and ornaments acquired in his travels form exciting episodes in a walk about the place and delights for garden designers and students of landscape art. Allerton is a staunch f 1 of the native Illinois landscape. His gard port foreign inspiration or not, never appear ae. Native Ik al materials are used, and such Illinois trees d (berry form pet ka< kgrounds e vigorous statu'nlin and Boi B nge of the estate along • i 1
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