Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Monticello Plantings, 16 March 1811
Notes on Monticello Plantings
almonds | apples | Taliafer do | apricots | cherries | nectarines | peaches | pears | plumbs | quinces | vacancies | |
a. | 2. | 2. | |||||||||
b. | 2. | 3. | |||||||||
c. | 5. | 2. | |||||||||
d. | 2. | 5 | 5. | 1. | |||||||
e. | 4 | 17. | 1. | 7. | |||||||
f. | 1. | 10. | 14. | 5. | |||||||
g. | 6 | 6. | 16. | ||||||||
h. | 11 | 1. | 19. | 15. | |||||||
i. | 15 | 1. | 22. | 7. | |||||||
j. | 17 | 1. | 15 | 11.1 | |||||||
k. | 4 | 10. | 26 | 1. | |||||||
l. | 5 | 8. | 11 | 162 | |||||||
m. | 11 | 1. | 2. | 6. | |||||||
n. | 6 | 5. | 1. | ||||||||
o. | 3 | 1. | 2. | 3. | |||||||
p. | 3 | 1. | 3. | ||||||||
q. | 3 | 1. | |||||||||
total | 69. | 15 | 7 | 48 | 5. | 160 | 2. | 2 | 5 | 71 | |
384. |
the vacancies to be filled in 1811. as follows
e. | 7. cherries. viz. –1.2. + 1.4.6.7.8. |
h. | 15. pippins. –1.+2.3.5.7.13.14.16.18.19.22.23.24.25.26. |
i. | 7. Spitzenbgs +5.8.13.16.17.24.26. |
j. | 11. calvites–1.2.+ 2.9.12.13.16.17.24.25.26 |
k. | 1. qu? 16. |
l. | 16. paccans. –2+1.2.6.8.13.16.20.23.24.25.26 27.28.31.36. |
m. | 6. pears. –1.+9.11.29.33. |
n.1 + o.3. + p.3. + q.1. = 8. Taliafers.
1811. Mar. 16. in the row e. I found +5. d3 therefore planted e–1–2+1+4+5 with Tuckahoe grey hearts from mr Coles
MS (ViU: TJP-ER); written entirely in TJ’s hand on one side of a narrow scrap.
TJ kept a planting chart for Monticello that used a grid system designating vacancies with dots and adding horizontal lines in relation to the dots to indicate the type of plant in the space ( , plate 32 opp. p. 421). Photographs of the gardens at Monticello and the Garden Book in which TJ recorded many of his efforts there are reproduced elsewhere in this volume. A French apple, the Calville Blanc d’Hiver, was anglicized by TJ as calvites. He planted the Taliaferro (taliafers) or Robinson apple beginning in 1778 ( , 75–6).
1. Reworked from “12.”
2. Reworked from “15.”
3. Probably abbreviating “dead” or “deceased.”
Index Entries
- almonds; planted at Monticello search
- apples; Calvite search
- apples; Newtown (Albemarle) pippin search
- apples; Spitzenburg search
- apples; Taliaferro (Robinson) search
- apricots; planted at Monticello search
- Calvite apple (Calville Blanc d’Hiver) search
- cherries; planted at Monticello search
- cherries; Tuckahoe (gray) search
- Coles, Isaac A.; sends plants to TJ search
- food; almonds search
- food; apples search
- food; cherries search
- food; pecans search
- food; plums search
- gardens; at Monticello, TJ’s plans for search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Monticello Plantings search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); gardens search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); notes on planting at search
- nectarines; planted at Monticello search
- Newtown pippin (Albemarle pippin) search
- nuts; almond search
- peaches; planted at Monticello search
- pecans; planted at Monticello search
- plums; planted at Monticello search
- quince; planted at Monticello search
- Spitzenburg apple search
- Taliaferro apple (Robinson apple) search
- Tuckahoe cherry (gray cherry) search