The Potomac and Rappahannock 



(hickory) tree under whose protectnig branches merry children 

 have for many generations played "flower ladies." A corre- 

 sponding pecan tree which stood on the left was blown down a 

 few years ago. 



On this terrace narrower gravel walks branch off from the side. 

 These lead one who traverses them through a maze of beautiful 

 flowers which fill the quaintly shaped borders. Roses of many 

 varieties and colors — lavender, whose blossoms are cut each year 

 and placed among the linen — wall flower, foxglove, Canterbury 

 bells, gaillardias, verbenas, orange and yellow calendulas, chrysan- 

 themums, peonies, pink and white phlox, cowslips, snapdragons, 

 petunias, flowering almond, Easter lilies, many kinds of iris, violets, 

 lily of the valley in profusion, and others too numerous to mention 

 fill the borders with sheets of brilliant bloom from earliest spring 

 until latest autumn. 



The next terrace is given up to grapes, figs, strawberries, rasp- 

 berries, currants and other small fruits, while the fourth and fifth 

 are planted with vegetables and the sixth with fruit trees. 



It would be difficult to imagine a spot more suggestive of 

 romance than this old garden. On a moonlight night, with the 

 river a thread of silver in the distance, one can almost see the 

 belles and beaux of bygone days emerging from the shadows. 



It was in the garden of Sabine Hall that George Washington 

 and Landon Carter walked together as Washington unfolded his 

 plans for the campaign at Morristown. When the latter returned 

 he took with him the young son of Sabine Hall to enlist in the Army 

 of the Revolution. It well-nigh broke his mother's heart. Then 

 followed a letter from General Washington to the boy's father full 

 of tender sympathy for the mother, "understanding her fears and 

 anxieties," saying he is going to "place the boy with so good a 

 man as General Baylor," how he himself is sick of war and longs 

 for the shades of private life. 



Landon Carter's diary tells of the yearly Christmas house 

 parties, when the Lees and Washingtons, the Spotswoods and other 



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