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On reaching Longwood, Vernon parked on a grassy sward next to the Longwood Gate.
We went through the gate into the garden and had our first look at the house (prison)
where the Emperor of France spent his last six years of life. The garden showed the
terracing which Napoleon himself had planned so that there would be various levels
to his garden. There was purple and white agapanthus blooming as well as the royal
iris. Several Norfolk pines shade the grounds and there are two trees which have
been here since Napoleon’s own time on the island. We never did get the names of
the trees but they looked like cedars of some sort and leaned away from the
prevailing winds.
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