Sharpening the Old Dutch Scythe. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall [facing 392]

Summer-house[Pg xvii] at Ravensworth, County Fairfax, Virginia. Home of Mrs. W. H. Fitzhugh Lee. Photographed by Elizabeth W. Trescot [392]

Beehives at Waterford, Virginia. Photographed by Henry Troth [facing 394]

Beehives under the Trees. Photographed by Henry Troth [395]

Spring House at Johnson Homestead, Germantown, Pennsylvania. Photographed by Henry Troth [facing 396]

Dovecote at Shirley-on-James, Virginia. From Some Colonial Mansions and Those who lived in Them. Published by Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia [397]

The Peacock in his Pride [398]

The Guardian of the Garden [400]

Brick Terrace Wall at Van Cortlandt Manor. Photographed by J. Horace McFarland [facing 402]

Rail Fence Corner [403]