THE PRESIDENTS’ GARDENS 153 
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 
