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maples, larch, ironwood and Katsura trees. This his fortune as publisher of The Oregonian newspaper.
garden in fall is nothing short of breathtaking — and, of When the last family members moved out in 1958 and
course, I was also breathing in all those beneficial tree put the mansion up for sale, a group of conservation-
emissions. minded Portlanders launched a fund-raising campaign
I walked from the Japanese Friendship Garden to and saved it, restoring it to be open to the public. It
the world-famous International Rose Test Garden, but provides a look back at an era, complete with gor-
blooms here peak during spring and summer. Cherry geous grounds and gardens that offer even more trees
blossoms will transform the Japanese garden during to admire and stroll among.
spring. Another day I walked several blocks from my hotel
Not far from the Japanese Friendship Garden lies — passing the famous Voodoo Donuts store — to
the Pittock Mansion, built in 1914 for one of Portland’s the Lan Su Chinese Garden, completed in 2000 and
first families, the Pittocks, whose patriarch, Henry, built considered “the most authentic Suzhou-style Chinese

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