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Caption: Dedication - Allerton Park
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The lovely fantasy of these formalized gardens set so unconcernedly into the natural beauty of the Sangamon River Valley is a charming creation of clipped plantings, sheer walls without balustrades, a few very lovely great sculptures in idyllic glades and meads. In any beautiful light it seems to be not from central Illinois but from a page in a story book — a dream. From his early youth it was Robert ADerton's dream, and as it stands now it is the product of his imagination. Land developed in this way is becoming rare. These woods and gardens are a gentleman s estate, now maintained by the University as an outdoor museum piece where people may see a sample of landscape architecture of rare m wm&msm m t V
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