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Plant list for front of house

 
Accession number H3:PL Front of House-01
Creator
Garden Area
Terrace E
Cherry Hill
Mélisande’s Allée
East Lawn
Terrace D
Superintendent’s Cottage
Service Court
Crabapple Hill
Terrace A
Terrace C
Forsythia Dell
Terrace B
Orchard
Ellipse
Work types
plant lists

Description

Typewritten, undated plant list for various garden areas, with minor handwritten notations. Includes carbon copy of first 11-pages.

Garden areas are referred to using variant names. Iris Hill refers to Cherry Hill. The Wilderness, Gothic gardens, and Cockylocky (misspelled Corkalockie) are located in the East Lawn. Supt's Cottage and Butler's Cottage refer to the Cottage near the Service Court. The Conservatory / [O]rangery refers to the Cool House, also in the Service Court.

Cockylocky is sometimes known as Cocky-Locky.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

plants
trees
flowers (plants)
roses
terraces (landscaped-site elements)
gates
greenhouses
lawns (landscaped grass)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
Accession number H3:PL Front of House-01
Creator
Garden Area
Terrace E
Cherry Hill
Mélisande’s Allée
East Lawn
Terrace D
Superintendent’s Cottage
Service Court
Crabapple Hill
Terrace A
Terrace C
Forsythia Dell
Terrace B
Orchard
Ellipse
Work types
plant lists

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