52 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
is Tuckahoe, which being the Indian name of that 
creek, he named his plantation Tuckahoe after it: his 
house seems built solely to answer the purpose of hos¬ 
pitality, which being constructed in a different man¬ 
ner than most countries; I shall describe it to you: It 
is in the form of an H, and has the appearance of two 
houses joined by a large saloon; each wing has two 
stories and four large rooms on a floor; in one the 
family reside and the other is reserved solely for 
visitors: the saloon that unites them is of a considera¬ 
ble magnitude, and on each side are doors; the ceiling 
is lofty and to these they principally retire in summer, 
being but little incommoded by the sun and by the 
doors of each of the houses and those of the saloon 
being open, there is a constant circulation of air; they 
are furnished with four sophas, two on each side, and 
in the centre there is generally a chandelier; these 
saloons answer the two purposes of a cool retreat from 
the scorching and sultry heat of the climate, and of 
an occasional ballroom. The outhouses are detached 
at some distance, that the house may be open to the 
air on all sides.” In the gardens at Tuckahoe were 
box-bordered beds containing flowers, each bed being 
given up to one kind, notwithstanding the disapproval 
of this sort of planting by the great English gardeners 
before mentioned. 
Landscape gardening, in its broadest sense, owes its 
