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Monticello Garden, Virginia, 1991

"Masterful at gardening as well as statecraft, Thomas Jefferson tended plants from the Old World and the New. His garden at Monticello, restored in the 1980s, was his passion. 'No occupation is so delightful to me,' he wrote, 'as the culture of the earth.'"

—From "The Gift of Gardening," May 1992, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Sam Abell