Text: It also uses written sources, drawing from journals and memoirs to get a list of all the plants that were present in the historic garden. Image: Table titled “List of Plant Material Found in the Arlington Garden Before 1861.” Section of the table reproduced in the image is the annual and perennial plants of the garden. Columns of the table are “Name of plant found in original sources,” “location,” and “source.”

"It also uses written sources, drawing from journals and memoirs to get a list of all the plants that were present in the historic garden." Image from the Historic Grounds Report, Part II, The Custis-Lee Mansion Flower Garden.

These images were prepared as part of a series focusing on cultural landscape reports and historic structure reports, highlighting examples and illustrating how the reports relate to preservation history in the National Park System.

• Keywords: cultural landscape; historic grounds reports