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[[underlined]] Ohio [[/underlined]]

As gardens go in the Old World a hundred years is a comparatively short life but in our middle west there are very few gardens that were planted a century ago.

[[underlined]] Baum-Longworth-Taft Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] 73. [[/underlined]] On Pike Street in Cincinnati there stands a very beautiful house which, with its grounds and gardens, was planned by Latrobe. These were originally built for Martin Baum, an early mayor of Cincinnati. In 1828 it was purchased by Nicholas Longworth, then a young lawyer, whose interest in horticulture was soon to over-shadow his interest in law. Under his hand the gardens and park around the Pike Street house grew to cover many city blocks. He built greenhouses along his southern boundary and imported English and Scotch gardeners to care for them.

[[underlined]] 74. [[/underlined]] His chief interest, however, was the culture of grapes and in 1851 his Catawba vines covered 115 acres. Now the grounds around the house are restricted by the growth of a great city and in recent years the gardens were cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft.

The beautiful house, filled with works of art of great importance, was willed to the City of Cincinnati at the death of Mr. Taft. The Cincinnati Art Museum is now in charge of house and grounds.

[[underlined]] Adena, Chillicothe, Ohio [[/underlined]]

In 1797 Thomas Worthington and his young wife, both of whose families