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| Stop
to Smell the Roses at the Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens |
Hartford
The world
famous Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens is the
oldest municipally operated rose garden in the country. It is a two and
a half acre garden which has about 800 varieties of roses that amount to 15,000
plants. Rambling roses cover arched walkways in the garden and the beds are filled
with roses of every shape and color. Along the border, fences of climbing and
shrub roses provide a colorful background for the bedding plants. www.elizabethpark.org Mystic
Mystic Seaport
occupies the site of three of the five shipyards that once lined the Mystic River
and collectively launched 600 vessels between 1784 and 1919. Mystic Seaport today
is the country’s leading maritime museum, guardian of the largest collections
of boats and sea-related photography in the world. Take part in all three of Mystic
Seaport’s experiences -- the village, exhibit galleries and a unique shipyard
where the nearly lost art of wooden shipbuilding endures. www.mysticseaport.org | 