"L
et us cultivate our garden", says
Voltaire at the end of his manifesto of the Enlightenment,
Candide, published in 1759. That is what the Akridge
family has done for the past thirty years on the grounds
of Harleigh House, in Oxford, Maryland. Harleigh is an
ancient American house, the original core of which was
"patented" in 1683, almost a century before Voltaire
wrote his famous words.
Harleigh is a mansion of many gardens, some formal, some
wild, both varieties influencing Henry Pinckney Johnson,
whose design of Harleigh's interior is documented in this
issue of HYLAND in the article, "La Vie en Rose".
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