52 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 



is Tuckahoe, which being the Indian name of that 

 creek, he named his plantation Tuckahoe after it: his 

 house seems built solely to answer the purpose of hos- 

 pitality, which being constructed in a different man- 

 ner than most countries ; I shall describe it to you : It 

 is in the form of an H, and has the appearance of two 

 houses joined by a large saloon; each wing has two 

 stories and four large rooms on a floor; in one the 

 family reside and the other is reserved solely for 

 visitors: the saloon that unites them is of a considera- 

 ble magnitude, and on each side are doors; the ceiling 

 is lofty and to these they principally retire in summer, 

 being but little incommoded by the sun and by the 

 doors of each of the houses and those of the saloon 

 being open, there is a constant circulation of air; they 

 are furnished with four sophas, two on each side, and 

 in the centre there is generally a chandelier; these 

 saloons answer the two purposes of a cool retreat from 

 the scorching and sultry heat of the climate, and of 

 an occasional ballroom. The outhouses are detached 

 at some distance, that jthe house may be open to the 

 air on all sides." In the gardens at Tuckahoe were 

 box-bordered beds containing flowers, each bed being 

 given up to one kind, notwithstanding the disapproval 

 of this sort of planting by the great English gardeners 

 before mentioned. 



Landscape gardening, in its broadest sense, owes its 



