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Histor 1e GARDEN 68'S PACER eT RPA ————— —<— <_ ee -- ——_ —— mi — 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, commands the view on the west. Monticello, being only three and one-half miles away, tradition 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. 1272]
