Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-08-11

doubt. very valuable plants, &c. there
are some other varieties that are cult
vated in the Presidents garden, which
address themselves for admiration more
Immediately 10 the palate than to the
eye of the beholder-such as fine
Neshanock potaties, honest drumhead
and early York cabbages, white and
red sugar and pickle beets, marrowfat
peas, carrots, parsnips, &c. &c. with |
abundance of the fragaria Virginiana,
or strawberry, the dewberry, raspberry, |
&c. sc. In short, sir, the Presidents |
garden, in all its arrangements and
beauties, its treets, shrubs, vines, plants,
flowers, and esculents, is in perfect
keeping with the sumptuous and mag
nifcent palace. | may add that we
have been informed, by an official re-
port communicated to Congress in De-
cember last, that, during the past sea-
son, ''the public grounds at the Capt.
toll and PRESIDENTS MANSION have
been faithfully attended to by the
PUBLIC GARDENER AND THE
HANDS UNDER HIM. The trees
hare been shiyaly pruned and trained;
many choice ornamental trees and
shrubs have been planted; and the
plats, borders, and graceI acalks haze
been kept IN SUPERIOR ORDER" The
report might have also stated, with
perfect truth, that men had been hired
by the Government, and paid out of the
public Treasury, to pick up thetaLLing
leares, and pluck up by the roots the
zanthium Symposium and rumex aceto-
sella, or, according to vulgar ''lingo,"
burdock and sheep sorrel.
As the Presidents garden is enclos-
ed by high stone wall, and as the
gates are generally secured with locks,
very few persons, have been inform
ed, visit it, except by special invita-
ton, or in company with the President
or some member Of his household
This exclusion, however, does not ex-
tend to Members of Congress, some Of
/ whom, land more especially such as
are favorites, every alternate season,
! that is, during every long session, fire.
D quenuy take stroll through the gar
a don and adjacent grounds. The pres
5 ent session is my fourth at Washing
r ton, and [ have been in the garder
q twice; but on both occasions, we IAN
:, other member was in company were
e compelled, on reaching the western
+: end of the garden, to Chamber over tht
u stone wall, finding the gates locked.
e In regard to the progressive I'M
+ provement of the grounds and gardel
2. of the President, various suggestion
,q have recently been made, and particu
E larry by individuals whose taste an
= nice discrimination lin matters of lux
J. ury and refnement) have been great
,c improved by visit to the magnlhcel
10 gardens at the Palace of Versatile
and to some of the rich and SUMPTION
,a parks and gardens belonging TO Il
- Grown of England. 1t is suppose
in by these persons that the President
90 grounds would present more cor
vo pIete and finished appearance by ere
ca ting Parian marble balustrades on
.oo Their side Of the main gravel walks;
N. building some. twenty or thirty mini
tv- ture temples and pavilions at regul
or intervals along and adjacent to t
rt;- southern outer-wall; by CONSTRUCT
amt five or six artificial lakes and fountal
ace TO pour their silver waters through t
ont the mouths of "huge river gods a
1ar sea-horses," with double the numb
az of lets d'eau to fill the atmosphe
m with spray and vapor. To these i
ron provements might we'll be added t
the or three hundred pieces Of the f
,ro- class of Italian statuary-such, for
go stance, as Saturn, Jupiter, Juno, NJ
mo- curry, Diana, Neptunus, Kolus, Ap
a1 10, Venus de Medecis, the Loves
and Graces, Naiades and Dryades, Jo
con Bacchus and the Bacchantes, VulC
Of and his Cyclops, Hercules, Pan, T
If tus; Midas, and the Dragon that gu
The ded the Golden Apples in the gar6
we Of the Hesperides.
few There is only one other ornam
RS which may with great propriety
FORE procured, inasmuch as it would Sc
the to illustrate and perpetuate in a su
.ond BILE form the truth Of a very import
the historical event, and that ornam
most should be bronze colossal eqaestr
and statue Of Andrea0 Jackson aclth tie u
na- Ksnderhook magician mounted on
the hind Tim. This statue | would h
most conspicuously placed upon the ST
and balustrade which crowns the palace
ctod Before the Administration Of J.
,brs- Adams, the appropriations for imp
rv;ns ing the Presidents grounds had b
,ng5 very trifing. During his term, b
l. : ever, two considerable sums werev'
ming by Congress for that purpose.
eve5 first Of these grants was FIVE thous
I on,;, dollars by the act Of the 25th Of Fe
, NJ, airy, 1926, for leuelling, grading,
l;Iv improving the Presidents squar
,5an3 The second grant was five thoui
.b;cb eight hundred and sixty-fve dollar
ad- the act Of the 22d May, 1926, for
) AZ iishing the fences, gr0 duating ana
icinal prouiag the public grounds. Pr
A. &c the disbursement Of these appro
esno- tons, the grounds presented a