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ENE: BTEDMONT : SBETGHON — mm ee E = mm — — = = —— 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 enjoyment of the sensation of having found a new world! By this time, however, Sir Peyton had been lying in the cemetery, 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 decades before, so there were no equipages to traverse the driveways and be halted by the boxwood trees and other overgrown shrubbery—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 established gives no trouble; the seeds should be sown in Sep. Commonly called Kest Yarrow. Purple Shrubby e Kest Yarrow grows naturally on the Alps.” [311]
