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War Between the States, and was always a faithful friend and
overseer.
In 1906, Mr. Samuel Marshall bought Morven from the Smith
heirs, and since that time the old garden has been renewed. Uncle
Lee Jones, to whom reference has been made above, came one
morning to see his old home under its new master. He walked
into the garden and said, ‘‘Praise God, I lives to see Morven bloom
again."
The big box-tree, the white violets, and the striped grass by
the garden gates, the tall bamboos and the lovely hollyhocks that
take possession every year, are the plantings of other hands than
the present owners. The old terraces have not all been restored,
but there has never been found any drawn plan of the original |
garden. Some say that the view from the garden is lovelier than
anything in it. Ash Lawn, the old Monroe home, lies to the north,
on the east are flat woods that give the effect of a sea view, and the
“mountain on the place,’ as a previous owner described it, com¬
mands the view on the west.
Monticello, being only three and one-half miles away, tradi¬
tion says that Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback to trade at the
country store which stood at the foot of this mountain and within
the confines of the Morven estate.
The present garden has on one side a hedge of box grown from
cuttings taken from the big box-tree. Around the driveway, which
leads to the entrance to the house, there is a new box hedge which
the owner calls her "war hedge." ‘This was bought in February,
1917, from a Belgian salesman who told her that these plants. were
the last shipment that could be made out of Belgium, as the German
submarine ultimatum had gone into effect. Happily, the plants have
all survived and flourished, taking courage, no doubt, from the soil
which started them.
JOSEPHINE P. MARSHALL.
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