Stranica 157 [157]
OCR
HisTORIC GARDENS OF ‘V:IBGINIA severalty looking as if it might be a Titan among evergreens. 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 oldfashioned 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, calycanthus, 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, [96 |
