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HisTORIC GARDENS OF ‘V:IBGINIA
severalty looking as if it might be a Titan among ever¬
greens.
To the right of the entrance gate is a broad walk one hundred
feet in length (leading to the greenhouse), flanked on each side
by lines of suffruticosa box, beyond which extend on each side
formal flower-beds edged with dwarf-box. Here are some of the
original roses brought by Anne Carter from Shirley in 1820: the
Noisettes, Champney’s Blush Cluster, Seven Sisters, La Tourtrelle
and the ever-blooming Pink Daily. Jo the left extends a small
maze of box, with beds of lilies of the valley and hardy begonia,
at the foot of tall magnolia trees. The inner circle of the maze
contains, carefully cherished, LaReine, Dr. Marx, Baron Provost,
Rivers’, George IV, White Rose of Provence, and other old¬
fashioned remontant roses, planted by Mrs. W. C. Wickham when
she came as a bride in 1848.
To the left of the entrance gate a gravel walk extends, three
hundred and forty feet in length, the first one hundred feet being
flanked with formal rose-beds edged with dwarf-box. Beyond this
is a series of rustic arches covered by climbing roses.
At intervals, and on both sides of the box avenue, other broad
walks extend through the garden, some at right angles and some
parallel. Along some of these, rows of raspberries, gooseberries
and currants extend. Others are bordered by peonies, phlox, and
iris, while scattered here and there are tall crepe myrtles, caly¬
canthus, and pyrus-japonica shrubs. |
On the two terraces or falls (as they are preferably called),
at the lower end of the garden, box-trees, still higher, cast their cool]
shadows on the thirty-foot stretch of grass and fragrant shrubbery.
These are closed in by fences covered with climbing roses, yellow
jasmine and honeysuckle, at the bottom of which nestle long
stretches of iris, syringas, jonquils and periwinkle.
Turning to the left, at the end of the rose-covered arches, a
broad grass walk marks the southern limit of the flower garden,
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