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Ce eee Lee PLEDMONT | SECTION —— — — = a ET a profuse and brilliant mass of crepe myrtle as this garden displays in midsummer. Outside of the house grounds proper are stretches of parklike woods enclosed by a stone wall between a mile and a half and two miles long. his wall was constructed to a great extent by slave laborers, as were the mansion and office themselves. A road from the house, shaded on one side by a dense woods, carpeted with periwinkle, and on the other by elms and mimosa trees, leads over to’a peaceful little graveyard surrounded by a stone wall covered with English ivy. In another direction a shaded path strikes off from the grounds to a swimming pool. Opposite this, there is a picturesque walk known as the ‘Lovers’ Walk.”’ This begins in the park, winds in and out through the forest bounded by the stone wall and, after many detours, returns to its starting point. The mansion and some two thousand two hundred and thirty acres of the original Staunton Hill plantation are now owned by William Cabell Bruce, of Baltimore, the son of Charles Bruce. LoulIsE Este BRUCE. [307]
