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The latest in Dumbarton Oaks series on gardens and the ways in which they are used and conceived looks at gardens as places to stimulate the imagination and creative thought. Different cultures have of course seen gardens in very different ways, and essays here show some of these interpretations: Persians using gardens to meditate on the meaning of God, Chinese descriptions of gardens as a mirror for the self, the garden as memorial in Israel, the garden as an expression of Ottoman social hierarchy, archaeological gardens in Renaissance Rome, amongst others.