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The oval shape of the space is reflected in the shape of the reflecting pool and the opening of the Hemlock trees to the sky above.

Black two-ring notebook containing blue-lined paper, sixteen total pages with Violetta White Delafield's pencil-written inventory of Montgomery Place's flora and fauna, other pages blank: inventory categories include Trees, Conifers, Flowers, Ferns,…

View looking West onto Montgomery Place

View looking East onto Montgomery Place

This garden was designed to look natural, but when World War II came, a lot of Violetta Delafield's workers enlisted and the rock garden turned into a "rough garden." Violetta still cultivates and grouped certain plants so the garden would have an…

Bartons, [sic] N.Y. / May 25/1901. / Morchella esculenta [sic] niola [sic] orchard

Scythes were used to cut grass and hay, using a cross-body motion.

Scythes were used to cut grass and hay, using a cross-body motion.