. Civil War officers. Confederate . angefor keeping the road from his gateto his landing open to the public,Philip Lee, second master of Strat-ford, was excused from contrib-uting to other road clearing. Philips brother William in Eng-land served as agent for sellingWestmoreland tobacco and forpurchasing English goods for theentire countryside. i^rard arc e 115 an JG rounds Thomas Lee planned with artistry. The H-shape ofhis house was carried out on a grander scale in thequadrangle of dependencies or auxiliary buildings—kitchen, office, work room or storehouse, plantation bui
. Civil War officers. Confederate . angefor keeping the road from his gateto his landing open to the public,Philip Lee, second master of Strat-ford, was excused from contrib-uting to other road clearing. Philips brother William in Eng-land served as agent for sellingWestmoreland tobacco and forpurchasing English goods for theentire countryside. i^rard arc e 115 an JG rounds Thomas Lee planned with artistry. The H-shape ofhis house was carried out on a grander scale in thequadrangle of dependencies or auxiliary buildings—kitchen, office, work room or storehouse, plantation builder picked vistas, and made them axes forarchitecture, with every outlook a view. Beauty is a guiding principle all over the old Virginiaestate. Drives that curve to please the eye open into gra-cious woodland vistas, and breath-taking Potomac Riverscenes. A foot-path through orchard and forest leads toa picturesque spring. Laurel is mirrored in the mill season has its flower show, both woodland and cul-tivated ■n : It took two years research and much careful excavationto transform the wilderness pictured above into the restoredLee garden at right below. Thomas Lee was a horticul-turist, introducing into Vir-ginia semi-tropical fruits—the fig,orange and pomegranate. He im-ported seeds, shrubs and trees. The formal garden at Stratfordtoday follows the original plan ofthree terraces terminating in aha-ha wall. For years these terraces layquiescent under a weed-grownfield. Two years of research wascarried on before the restorationwas possible. Excavations disclosedthe location of terraces and wallfoundations.
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