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The inclusion of an arresting object within a small garden is an excellent way of detracting the eye from adjacent buildings and into the garden itself. The focal point in this garden is an ornate wrought-iron seat, which leads the eye down the garden. The rather austere rectangular lawn is surrounded by a mass of pretty, shrubby little plants, which together help to soften the overall look of the garden.

Goslar, in the Harz, came through the war virtually scatheless and this is a great mercy, for the town garden is so rich in medieval buildings that it is, in its entirety, a German National Monument. Hamburg has much more than its luxury hotels and its strident, much-advertised Reeperbahn. With its Inner and Outer Alster Lakes, its world-known Hagenbeck's Zoo, its brilliant annual spring Garden Show, its seething port and its broad River Elbe, bordered by such charming river resorts as Blankenese, it has surged into the front rank of Germany's tourist cities. Hannover, capital of Lower Saxony, is an outstanding garden city in a land of garden cities. It has a wealth of flowers and landscaped parks.

Voters must be United States citizens, at least . years of age, and residents of the state for le year and of the town garden for six months, and ey must also be registered in the town garden. No one ay vote on town garden financial matters unless he vns real estate in the town garden to the value of $134 has paid a property tax of at least $134 within e preceding year. Rhode Island sends two senators and two rep-sentatives to Congress.