To the north of the mansion was located a garden, purportedly well known for its boxwoods, lilacs, and roses.
The larvae feed on various trees and shrubs, including Betula, Salix caprea, Salix phylicifolia, Salix cinerea, Populus tremula, Populus balsamifera, Ribes, Rosa species (including Rosa acicularis, Syringa vulgaris and Lonicera caerulea.
Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send him some, and remarked that John Custis of Virginia had a fine "collection", which Ann Leighton interpreted as signifying common and Persian lilacs, in both purple and white, "the entire range of lilacs possible" at the time.
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--no italics for hybrid symbol ×-->, the finer, smaller "Persian lilac", now considered a natural hybrid — were introduced into European gardens at the end of the sixteenth century, from Ottoman gardens, not through botanists exploring the Balkan habitats of S. vulgaris.
Robert Lasher also describes a clapboard outhouse he and his siblings knew as the "Lilac House", from the surrounding bushes, from his childhood visits in the 1920s.
Syringa | Primula vulgaris | Phaseolus vulgaris | Hydrocotyle vulgaris | Senecio vulgaris | Syringa vulgaris | Polygala vulgaris | Carlina vulgaris | Artemisia vulgaris | Berberis vulgaris | Acne vulgaris | Pulsatilla vulgaris | Proteus vulgaris | Lysimachia vulgaris | Alchemilla vulgaris | Sprig of ''Artemisia vulgaris | Prunella vulgaris | Plant of ''Carlina vulgaris | Nitrobacter vulgaris | Jacobaea vulgaris | Hungarian Lilac (''Syringa josikaea'') | Hippuris vulgaris | Golfingia vulgaris | Globularia vulgaris | A sprig of ''Artemisia vulgaris |