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1857 Henry Watson Landscape Plan
Greensboro, Alabama
Henry Watson
1875
Alabama
This 1857 landscape plan is a part of the Watson papers in the manuscript department of the Perkins
Library of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. The Watson’s were very early in the Greensboro, a 1856 map
shows that Henry Watson shows owned a large rectangular piece of property near the center of town, just to the
north of the main street. He graduated from a college in Connecticut, was a planter in the county and had been the
headmaster a local academy for a number of years. Presumably the landscape plan was for that property in
Greensboro. Compiled and submitted by George R. Stritikus.
The plants listed on the plan . . .
Locust
Oak
Mock Orange (Carolina Laurelcherry)
Pomegranate
Cape Jessamine (Gardenia)
Sweet Myrtle (Southern Waxmyrtle)
Crepe Myrtle
Althea (Hibiscus syriacus)
Arbo Vitae
China Tree (Melia azedarach)
Ailanthus
Chestnut
Sweet Gum
Osage Orange
Woodbine (Honeysuckle )
Red Cedar
Lilac
Spanish Sword (Yucca)
Spindle Tree (Euonymus species)
Syringa (Philadelphus, Mock Orange)
Corcorus (old name for Kerria)
Pear
Sweet Shrub
Chinese Box (possibly Japanese Boxwood)
Rhododendron
Hypericum
Holly
Hickory
Mulberry
Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium)
Apple
Yew
Coffee Tree
Poplar
Cork Elm
English Ivy
Pittosporum
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