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Text: The report is also interested in more narrative, romantic remembrances of the garden, drawing on memories of the garden recorded by Robert E. Lee. Image: Paragraph from the report. The text reads “Robert E. Lee, who married Mary Custis in 1831, had known the gardens of Arlington since boyhood. As young children he and Mary Custis planted trees near the house. Lee enjoyed walking in the garden. In the morning he frequently picked roses to place beside each lady’s breakfast plate. The month of May brought the beauty of nature of Arlington. Robert E. Lee once described it: “The country looks very sweet now, and the hill at Arlington...covered with verdure, and perfumed by the blossoms of the trees, the flowers of the Garden, Honey-Suckles, yellow Jasmine...is more to my taste than at any other Season of the year...””

"The report is also interested in more narrative, romantic remembrances of the garden, drawing on memories of the garden recorded by Robert E. Lee." 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 report