Table of Illustrations 



The Garden of the Adams House in Richmond Facing Page 72 



Original Home of Richard Adams, Built About 1760, One of the Oldest 



Houses in Richmond 72 



View Through the Garden from the Portico of the Adams House .... 73 



Carrington House on Church Hill 73 



The Archer House in Richmond 76 



The Garden of the Archer House 77 



Garden at the Valentine Museum in Richmond 81 



South Front of House of General Joseph R. Anderson — Now the Site of the 



Jefferson Hotel 85 



The Home of General Joseph R. Anderson 87 



The Brook Hill Garden 90 



Entrance to the Park at Brook Hill in Winter 9^ 



Hickory Hill Q2 



Box Walk at Hickory Hill 96 



Formal Garden at Hickory Hill 97 



Box Trees Shading the Lowest Fall at Hickory Hill 98 



An Arch of Boxwood at Williamsville 99 



Williamsville, Hanover County 99 



A Corner in the Airwell Garden 104 



Airwell, Hanover County 104 



Claremont, Surry County 104 



Edgewood, One of the Berkeley Homes in Planover County 105 



Thomas Nelson Page in the Oakland Garden no 



Oakland, the Birthplace of Thomas Nelson Page, in Hanover County . .110 



The Box "Maze" at Tuckahoe, Goochland County in 



North Front of Tuckahoe When the Daffodils Bloom 112 



The Tuckahoe Garden in June 113 



The River Terraces at Wilton, the Randolph Home on the Lower James, 



Where Jonquils Taken from Tuckahoe are Lavishly Naturalized . . . 120 



The Cedar Lane at Tuckahoe 120 



Norwood, the Kennon Home in Powhatan County 121 



A Garden Entrance at Rock Castle 124 



Rock Castle, the Rutherfoord Home in Goochland County 125 



Box Trees at Elk Hill in Winter 129 



Sempervirens Boxwood at Elk Hill 132 



Serpentine Brick Walk Leading from House to Garden at Elk Hill . . . 132 



Elk Hill— North Front I33 



Elk Hill— South Front I33 



River Front of Lower Bremo 136 



The Hillside Garden at Lower Bremo 136 



Stone Garden Wall at Recess 137 



Point of Fork 140 



North Front of Upper Bremo 141 



Recess 141 



Westend, Louisa County 144 



Lilies in the Garden at Westend I45 



The Garden at Lawson Hall 150 



Lawson Hall, Princess Anne County 150 



Sylvan Scene, Northampton County, Home of the Fitzhughs 151 



Poplar Hall, Norfolk County 154 



The Park at White Marsh with its Remarkable Variety of Trees .... 155 



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