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immense tree instead of two, whose glossy leaves hid the secret of
the trunkless interior. Upon parting the branches, one entered a
spacious vaulted chamber, with walls and cathedral-arched roof of
living green, and provided with garden seats for prolonged enjoy¬
ment of the sensation of having found a new world!
By this time, however, Sir Peyton had been lying in the ceme¬
tery, at the back of the garden, for more than eighty years, and
Lady Jean for only twenty years less; the War of the Confederacy
had been fought and lost and the slaves freed more than two de¬
cades before, so there were no equipages to traverse the driveways
and be halted by the boxwood trees and other overgrown shrub¬
bery—but we are getting ahead of the story.
A list of Lady Jean’s flowers would prove tedious reading, as
it difters so little from our own lists of today. She gives both the
botanical and the common names, sometimes followed by a note
as to where a specimen was obtained, and usually by comments on
the color, habits or best mode of culture, as
“Limodorus Tuberosum—from South Carolina—by Jim.”
“Bermudiana (see Sisyranchium), the blue flowers with
grass looking stalks and leaves—plenty in the orchard.”
“Erythronium, Dog’s Tooth Violet—from Royster’s low
grounds and the Island."
. “Sessile Trillium, Liver coloured flower from the Point of
the Island.”
‘Shrubs to be got when I can:
Widow-Wail (see Cueorum), a low evergreen shrub with
a small yellow flower easily raised from seed sown in
the fall.
Early Shrub Anonis (see Ononis) raised from seeds in
the open ground, very beautiful, and when once estab¬
lished gives no trouble; the seeds should be sown in
Sep. Commonly called Kest Yarrow. Purple Shrubby
e Kest Yarrow grows naturally on the Alps.”
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