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cattle from getting into the ornamentals. DuPont built a total of eight greenhouses.
Marion duPont Scott, William’s daughter, inherited the estate in 1929. Marions mother, Anna, liked the “hen sitting on nest” motif; it dominated the topiary of the formal garden. The horseshoe-shaped beds boasted ageratum, dusty miller, iris, hosta, peony, day lily, and other flowers.
Spring Gardens
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A double row of holly hocks divided the garden. The terraced portions displayed beds forming pieshaped patterns called parterres. These were planted with tulips and hyacinths for spring bloom and replaced later in the season with geraniums. Behind the greenhouse lay vegetable gardens and beds planted with peony, larkspur, columbine, and mints.
Montpelier is open. Visitors can tour both the house and the gardens and get the feeling of the building that housed a president of the United States and later the family of a major industrial entrepreneur.
These descriptions of Montpelier are adapted from “Montpelier—Then and Now” by Debbie Blosser, former Extension Technician, Horticulture.
(Dr. Diane Relf is a horticulture specialist with Virginia Cooperative Extension and is a member of the faculty of Virginia Tech.)
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