WASHINGTON’S GARDEN 
good. Surely the white rose-bush, so planted, may well 
have acquired a quality beyond that of any other of its 
kind on earth. 
A plan of the place as it was in Washington’s day 
still exists. It was drawn in color by Mr. Samuel 
Vaughan of London, who visited the General in 1787, 
and was approved by Washington, with the addition of 
a slight correction. The lawn and the two groves of 
trees in front of the house are the same to-day. Behind, 
the plan shows the small circular grass-plot surrounded 
by the driveway. Below this a large fiddle-shaped 
lawn extends, framed by trees in marshaled rows, and 
flanked on either side by the big kitchen-gardens. Close 
to the house were the numerous cabins for the slaves, 
the quarters for white servants, the tailor and boot¬ 
maker and blacksmith shops, etc. A spring-house, a 
smoking-house, stables, and spinning-rooms, even a 
school, all are arranged in symmetrical order. The 
kitchen-gardens were inclosed within brick walls, and a 
“stately hothouse” stood in one. Mr. Vaughan notes 
that the General “owned 12,000 acres, whereon were 
several farms, five of which are kept under cultivation. 
. . . He breakfasts at seven, then mounts his horse and 
canters six days in the week to every one, a circuit of 
about twenty miles, inspecting and giving directions for 
management at each, and returns home at two o’clock.” 
A charming country-gentleman’s life. And while 
Washington rode forth over the estate, his lady gave 
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