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may be planted in some vacant space of South West 

 angle. 6 Spitzenberg apple trees. Plant them in the 

 South East orchard, in any place where apples have 

 been planted and are dead. 5 Peach trees. Plant in 

 South East orchard wherever peach trees have died. 

 500 October peach stones; a box of Peccan nuts. The 

 nursery must be enlarged and these planted in the new 

 parts, and Mr. Perry must immediately extend the pal- 

 ing so as to include these and make the whole secure 

 against hares. Some turfs of a particular grass. 

 Wormley must plant them in some place of the or- 

 chard, where he will know them, and keep other grass 

 from the place." 



About this time there was a craze for lilies, and 

 Jefferson acquired a fine collection. Many varieties 

 were planted on the west lawn, including a "black" 

 one — presumably some form of Lilium Martagon^ 

 which ranges from deepest dingy purple to a dirty 

 white. He makes reference to his "martagons" as 

 they were then differentiated, and to a proposed gift 

 or exchange with a neighbor. These lilies, planted 

 more than a hundred years ago, still blossom every 

 year in their old places, proving, if such proof were 

 necessary, the superlative value of bulbous plants. 

 Almost nothing else in the line of herbaceous material 

 could have held its own for so long a time. 



But although he gave much attention to beautifying 



