The Piedmont Section 



It Is said that there are thirty-six thousand linear feet of this hedge 

 in the formal garden with tree box outside. Some of the tree box 

 is over thirty feet high. Clipping the formal garden hedges each 

 spring is three weeks' work for six men. 



THORNFIELD 



Thornfield, the ancestral home of the Scales family, Is about 

 twenty miles from Danville. The land was granted to the first 

 owner by George III of England, and the original grant, signed 

 by the English king, is still In the possession of the family. 



The brick house, beautifully situated upon an elevation that 

 overlooks a wide expanse of fertile country, reminds one of an 

 English country home. Handsome trees, boxwood and shrubs 

 abound. Mr. Joseph H. Scales now owns the place. 



WINDSOR 



Windsor, which Is owned and occupied by Mr. Samuel H. 

 Wilson and family, is eighteen miles from Danville. The house, 

 built about i860 by Samuel Pannill Wilson, and the servants' 

 quarters, are of brick made on the place. 



This estate has never changed hands, and as there are several 

 sons, there is no doubt that the name of Wilson will forever be 

 associated with this attractive place. 



The gardens, which were designed by a Prussian landscape 

 gardener, are exclusive, and many varieties of roses, bulbs, peren- 

 nials, shrubs and evergreens still abound. 



One can see flower beds of the earlier days, edged with brick, 

 and a heart-shaped bed tells its tale, of love and romance. Notice- 

 able for their wonderful size and statellness are the many boxvvood 

 trees, sentinels of the passing years. 



Ellen Wilson James. 



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