Historic Gardens of Virginia 



rounded by its ivy-covered stone wall. The eight beds composing 

 this garden are each surrounded with the dwarf variety of boxwood, 

 much of which is now over six feet high. Of this boxwood hedge 

 there is almost a half mile. To the west of the garden adjoining 

 it is the old Hairston family cemetery. 



The summer-house is built of hewed locust and, though small, 

 yet picturesque, is one of the older structures, though its exact age 

 is not known. It is known, however, that about 1840 the then 

 older members of the Hairston family were at that time speculating 

 as to what previous ancestor had built it, 



Alfred Varley Sims. 



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