The Piedmont Section 



its roof," lies the way to the garden which extended all along the 

 east side of the lawn. 



At the time that the west wing was added, the two offices — 

 Patrick Henry's from the shady seclusion of the back yard, and 

 William Wirt Henry's from the sunshiny front yard — were moved 

 into the spacious garden and placed together to form a cottage. 

 Since the house was burned in February, 1919, this cottage has 

 served as the residence. 



Along the fence, between yard and garden, jonquils are planted, 

 and to the right of the garden gate once stood a handsome pecan 

 tree which has long since blown down, 



A bit to the east is the old garden where box-hedges separate 

 colors and varieties of flowers and shrubs, some of which were 

 brought originally from Mount Vernon. The situation and treat- 

 ment of the garden which leads its well-clipped hedges down the 

 slope of the hill in terrace form, were selected by Mistress Elvira 

 Henry and prove her to have been an artist in this line. And the 

 pride of her garden was a Martha Washington rose. 



At the entrance of the garden, oneither side of the walk, stand 

 four large box-trees that meet at the top and form a leafy, green 

 bower. An unique feature of this arbor is a yellow jessamine that 

 blooms unseen in the tops of the box-trees and gives forth a delight- 

 ful fragrance whose source is difficult to locate. There is a row 

 of fig bushes to the left of the garden gate and a bed of white 

 violets on the right. All along the garden walk, which leads to 

 the graveyard, and the one bisecting it are planted tea and hardy 

 roses, calycanthus, spiraea, snowballs and other old-fashioned 

 flowering shrubs. The remainder of the ample garden is given 

 over to vegetables. 



The graveyard, at the extreme east side of the garden, is en- 

 closed by a boxwood hedge. The ground around the tombs of 

 Patrick Henry and his wife, Dorothea Dandridge, is covered with 

 an ever green carpet of periwinkle, which in the spring is dotted 

 with hundreds of little blue blossoms. 



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