Talk:Long Grass Plantation

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There is a Burr Acorn Tree in the front yard of Long Grass Which was named the “Constitution Oak” because Patrick Tarry was a Delegate to the 1902 Virginia Constitutional Convention. Each County Delegate relieved a “baby” Burr Oak tree to mark the Convention. On the 50th anniversary of the Convention, a man came to Long Grass and collected Burr Acorns from this Historic Tree to germinate Over the winter to make “New” Babies to be dispersed to the Legislators to take home and plant. He came to Long Grass and gave the Widow of Patrick Tarry a seedling. She planted it in the back yard. Today, the 1952 “Baby” is about 1/2 the size of the “Original” Constitution Oak... but, it is Fast “catching Up to it’s “mother tree”!

Another Historic tree is a HUGE male Osage Orange Tree (Nicknamed the Disney tree. It looks like a mammoth tree in the forest in the Disney Sleepy Hollow. The Family was related to the Lewis family (Of The Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lewis germinated seeds from Osage Oregon, and after losing his first crop, He was successful the second time around. He gave all of his family and friends one. Many of these trees still exist in the yards of the “Founding Fathers”. They are huge... and their is quite a competition as to which of these trees is the largest! The Tarry Family of Patrick Tarry planted black walnut trees to make the birth of each of their children's Births. their are only two of these trees living today.

Another outstanding tree is a gigantic Pecan tree! (Bigger than any of the huge willow Oaks that encircle the "Big House" yard.

The main House yard had a rail fence around it to keep the Farm animals in the surrounding fields.

There is evidence of an extensive Kitchen Garden containing Vegetables as well as an assortment of sppring flower bulbs that still bloom each Spring!