H oiise and Garden 
been left undisturbed, and shows how, in those 
good old days, things were kept safely by 
main strength and awkwardness, the key 
heinp; much lar«;er than that ot the Bastde. 
O C* ^ ^ 
Like all old places it has its own peculiar 
ehost, which haunts it in orthodox fashion, 
ft is reported that a young married lady, who 
lived very miserably there said upon he 
death-hed, that no one should ever he happy 
in the house again; and now, )ust upon the eve 
of any festivities at the old mansion, she is 
reputed to come hack again, and many declare 
that they have seen her crape veil and skirts 
just as she receded down the long passage, 
which leads into the dark cellar. 
d he main feature and attraction at Beverly 
Hall is the rose-garden, to the rear ot the 
house, arranged in the old Southern style. A 
broad rose-walk, (with side walks), leads 
from the house to the hack entrance, where 
THK I.IBRARY AND SUN-DIAL 
'I'lie Motto over the Door is E 'Tenebris t)i Lucem 
ington, under that rose-bush, and was ac¬ 
cepted hy her, and that since that night no 
lover has ever appealed to a maiden under 
it in vain and the knowledge of this little 
story has caused many an anxious trouba¬ 
dour to try his fortune under the Nellie 
Custis rose-bush on the tea-house at Beverly 
Hall. 
That cluster of beautiful azure flowers 
over there to the left of the main walk, like 
a junta of blue butterflies gracefully poised 
upon its stems, is the Tradesca 7 itia Vir- 
giniana, a blue-blooded Virginia aristocrat 
of the purest type, an F. F. V. As this flower 
was so intimately associated with the early 
Virginia colony, and the pioneers of our 
civilization, it has been brought into promi- 
I.OOKING DOWN THE ROSE-WALK 
it terminates under a pergola covered with 
yellow and crimson rambler roses, a suit¬ 
able trysting place for the amours of Florizel 
and Perdita. 
Besides the old-fashioned charm and 
beauty of tbe rose-garden it contains many 
plants collected from points of historic in¬ 
terest, from Mount Vernon, Arlington, and 
other places of note. Upon one side of the 
tea-house, which stands upon a swale of 
grass some distance from the main walk, 
climbs a Nellie Custis rose brought from 
the garden at Mount Vernon, and a lineal 
descendant of the famous Nellie Custis 
rose there, d he fascinating old gardener 
there tells you that Mr. I.ewis made love 
to Nellie Custis, adopted daughter of Wash- 
THE TEA-HOUSE WITH THE NELLIE CUSTIS ROSE 
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