House & Garden 
by Thomas Sully, of Eliza Ridgely, daughter- 
in-law of the Governor, and a beauty and 
heiress of her day. She is represented as 
standing at a harp, the original ot which is 
now in the music-room. Over the dining¬ 
room mantel are interesting portraits ot 
Captain Ridgely and his wife, by Heselius a 
pupil of Sir Godfrey Kneller, and a very 
popular painter in Colonial Maryland. 
THE PLAN OF THE BOX GARDEN 
Especially measured and drawn for House and Garden 
The parterres contained the following geraniums in July, 1901 : 
1 Pauline Lucca 
2 A. S. Nutt, dark crimson 
3 Gen. Lee, double salmon 
4 Mrs. Massey, single pink 
3 Dr. Jacoby, single pink 
6 Single white 
7 Marshal McMahon 
8 Centaur, double pink 
9 Gen. Lee 
10 Gen. Hancock, double scar¬ 
let 
11 Centaur 
12 Marshal McMahon 
1 3 Centaur 
14 Gen. Hancock 
15 Marshal McMahon 
16 Single white 
1 7 Pauline Lucca 
18 A. S. Nutt 
19 Gen. Lee 
20 Queen of the West, single 
scarlet 
It is but a step from the dim light ot the 
hall, and from its old pictures and furniture, 
out upon the south porch, shaded by a 
luxuriant wistaria. From here one looks 
down upon grass terraces constructed in 
sloping ground to the south, and bevond 
them up to hills of pasture-land and wood. 
The terraces are in two principal levels, 
connected by a broad grass-covered ramp. 
The upper level consists ot a low embank¬ 
ment just before the house, following the 
general contour of its front, and ot a broad 
lawn beyond, shaded by cedars of Lebanon, 
larch, purple beech, holly and red cedar. The 
last, arranged in a row ot six along the edge 
of this level, shades the visitor as he looks 
down upon terraced flower gardens below, or 
turns for a view of the house, which appears 
to great advantage from this point on account 
of being raised upon the low embankment; 
an advantage that the north front, which rests 
directly upon the lawn, does not enjoy. It 
is hard to say exactly what it is that gives the 
house a different look from that which we are 
apt to associate with Southern work of the 
time; but the difference is partly due to the 
use of white stucco instead of red brick, and 
to the unusually animated sky-line. 
The lower, or garden level,— fully twenty- 
five feet below the house lawn,—is divided 
into three very wide but rather shallow ter¬ 
races, upon which flowers are planted in 
rectangular parterres of comparatively simple 
geometrical patterns—two on each terrace 
placed at either side of a broad central path 
bordered by immense fir-trees. This path 
is centered on the axis of the house, and may 
be considered as the big hall extended out- 
A PATH IN THE BOX GARDEN 
doors. Marble vases, mounds of clipped 
box, and evergreen trees, are cleverly placed 
for separating the grass paths from the sur¬ 
rounding turf, thus emphasizing the principal 
lines of the design. 
Originally both of the uppermost 
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