The Piedmont Section 



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 enjoy- 

 ment of the sensation of having found a new world! 



By this time, however. Sir Peyton had been lying in the ceme- 

 tery, 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 de- 

 cades before, so there were no equipages to traverse the driveways 

 and be halted by the boxwood trees and other overgrown shrub- 

 bery — but we are getting ahead of the story. 



A list of Lady Jean's flowers would prove tedious reading, as 

 it differs 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 TriUium, 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 estab- 

 lished gives no trouble; the seeds should be sown in 

 Sep. Commonly called Kest Yarrow. Purple Shrubby 

 i''" Kest Yarrow grows naturally on the Alps." 



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