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SPOT OF SPLENDID MEMORIES.%Trees Planted by Illustrious Men at University of Virginia.Perhaps the most celebrated spot of its kind on American soil Is that wonderful old French garden which divides the mansion at .Vfontieello from I he campus of the University of Virginia, which adjoins it. It is after the French plan to have massive bastions of brick to make the place as secluded as If It were miles from the active, noisy student life beyond. In these pensive precincts a host of Illustrious men have gathered and many have left memories of their sojourn clinging to the spot like the vines and flowers they have planted.Here Jefferson entertained Lafayette and the warrior planted a root of wisteria which had been brought from France for the purpose. The vine still lives and spreads its exquisite flowers over all the south wall. In later days Bledsoe, philosopher and friend of the confederacy, planted some coral honeysuckle, the flowers of which are the pride of the present possessors. McOuffey, abhorred by the schoolboy because of the scores of readers and other text books that he wrote, planted some dwarf cedars, and that renowned mathematician. Charles Scott Venable, planted a few trees In symmetrical lines. Oliver Wendell Holmes buried the roots of an English laburnum bush, and It thrives to this day. John Stalge Davis and Noah K. Davis, noted teachers In the university, have left their mark in the garden.Among other famous men whose names are identified with the trees or flowering plants of this old garden are such pedagogues as those who wrote Greenleafs Evidence;’ Adams’ Equity” Vatel's I^aws of Nations and Scheie de Vere s Beginning of the Romance Languages. Alexander Hamilton visited Moiiticello in Jer ferson’s time and planted an acorn, which is now a mighty oak. Mallet, the French chemist, brought a root of ivy from Vincennes when he was the guest of Jefferson. It Is growing against the bastion. A truly instructive garden for a university is this ancient spot, with its rare old memo* ries and its priceless exotics planted by men with immortal names.
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Columbus Journal
Columbus, Nebraska, US
Wed, Jul 15, 1908
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