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[[underlined]] 37. [[/underlined]] Two great box sentinels that flank the garden gate. This box like that in Greenwich is about a hundred and ten years old. 

[[underlined]] Mount Gulian, the Verplanck garden at Fishkill-on-Hudson [[/underlined]], N.Y. (1804)

[[underlined]] 38. [[/underlined]] The land on which the Verplanck house and gardens stand today was bought from the Wappinger Indians in 1683 and the property still remains in the hands of the Verplanck family. 

The formal garden lies to the right of the main path, seven feet wide, one of the main arteries of the garden. The formal garden is fifty by fifty feet and the beds are box bordered.

[[underlined]] 39. [[/underlined]] On the other hand stretches a great border of peonies, which have bloomed sturdily since 1804. The garden itself is planted with peonies, fraxinella, or gas plant, lemon lilies, old tulips and roses, hundreds of old roses, all dating from the 1804 period. Yuccas make another formal planting, and two great [[underlined]] Magnolia conspicua [[/underlined]] give a needed height to the planting. Among the roses is one without a thorn of which the brides of long ago always made wreaths to wear on their wedding day. Among the other old roses are the Harison Yellow, the dark, dark red George IV, the Maiden's Blush, the striped York and Lancaster, and the Rose of Castile which blooms in the fall as well as in June. 

[[underlined]] The Grove, Rhinebeck, N.Y. [[/underlined]] (1790)

For many years the Grove at Rhinebeck remained in the hands of the Schuyler family and the house was known as Schuyler Hall. It is