Potomac landings . — ?-r o 1 ,J o y. -^ 0- •\ S OJ V <^ « ?1 o *< .J - Q ^ -^.?t; 2i 53 ^ 2£. POTOMAC LANDINGS 165 any trees, but at each end of the house rose a frame ofgreen which extended away in groves in both directions. Box and privet were generously employed in formalhedging, and the landscape scheme of the greater placesbalanced the kitchen or vegetable garden on one sidewith the formal or flow^er garden on the other. In thelatter the lady of the manor or the mistress of the man-sion devoted herself to beds of larkspur, periwinkles,snapdragons, candytufts, and daffodils. About th
Potomac landings . — ?-r o 1 ,J o y. -^ 0- •\ S OJ V <^ « ?1 o *< .J - Q ^ -^.?t; 2i 53 ^ 2£. POTOMAC LANDINGS 165 any trees, but at each end of the house rose a frame ofgreen which extended away in groves in both directions. Box and privet were generously employed in formalhedging, and the landscape scheme of the greater placesbalanced the kitchen or vegetable garden on one sidewith the formal or flow^er garden on the other. In thelatter the lady of the manor or the mistress of the man-sion devoted herself to beds of larkspur, periwinkles,snapdragons, candytufts, and daffodils. About thewalls rose hollyhocks, lilacs, and snowballs, over themhung luscious pendants of wisteria, with lilies of thevalley in a damp corner, and, about and beyond, otherbeds of dames violet, ladys slipper, hearts ease, cow-slip, meadow-sweet, pasque flower, feverfew, groundsel,thrift, spurge, Adam and Eve, yarrow, milfoil, loose-strife, clove pink, daisies, eglantine, jonquils, moss pink,laburnum, windflower and Josephs lily, dittery anddrop wart, monks hood and innocence; shrubberytangles banked the
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