New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-03
enc nnvlrona o. New orleans.
NUhRER FORTY NINE.

motion has actually penetrated INTO inc hloap
minute, and sometimes the most remote interests
of the economical order of families and whole
classes of industrial people. We have aireauy
sufficiently enlarged upon some OF the very PROM
able and lucrative industrial branches callleu o1
| in former times in the vicinity OF our ouy'Se' We
have not so far, made mention OF tha' Nei5 ~"
mental art or culture-the rearing Oh mower gar
daps or horticulture, which at one time was
pushed even to somewhat an eAtra'aSaut ueSiee
in our verv midst. Aye, the passion for rare |
plauts and rare flowers, in former years. was some
thing altogether surprising and we have been told
of febnIous prices being given for some peculiarly
haautifpl specimens of horticulture such as would
he displsyed upon some grand occasion, some fes-
tival or social reunion to attract the attention of
counoisseurs as well amateurs of such natural OBJ
eots Since the outbreak of the late war, blight,
as it were has fallen upon the enterprise, and we
do not even perceive the former garden wagons,
offering Towering plants strawberries, other such
predictions, to our New Orleans city public These
SEEM for the present. articles of luxury, to have
dropped into complete oblivion; and no doubt the
former horticulturists have turned their atten
ton to the more necessary vegetables as cab
bages, turnips, beets, lettuce sorrel ETC., which
still continue to be consumed by the public, whilst
flowers and bouquets are comparatively neglected.
1t is therefore by no means an uncommon sight to
find the fine old gardens around city in rather
neglected condition, whilst the kitchen or vege-
table patches still receive their wonted attention
and even, as we have noticed, the number of these
latter have been considerably increased, which,
indeed, is a pleasing sight to the eye.
Although it may not be superfuous to state
that successful gardening requires here, as well
Il
to the soil, still we have observed that those local.
ties which have long been under culture contain
the best mould, and therefore yield the amplest
turn for the expended labor. In this respect we
have particularly noticed in the vicinity of our city
] some uncommonlyriehg ardenspot and whiehmust
} have been in yearly use over perhaps hundred
years already, without any apparent exhaustion.
One of these extraordinary localities is the yegeta-
Bile farm Immediately adjoining the old sugar re-
D fnery, somewhere below the tobacco warehouses
f in the Third District, on the public road towards
the United States barracks Upon this long estab-
lished country farm stands old stately building,
r which, according to our estimation, must have
a been erected more than a century ago. Although
! it is in somewhat dapidated condition, yet if
we were the owners of this piece of property, we
5 would have it repaired and reinstated for a
/
bic specimen of the most ancient sort of family
mansion building in the country, and for one
who has paid some attention to the different styles
Of architecture that have prevailed in the country
during the successive stages of French and Span
ish colonaIr6gme, as well the former first essays
Of American style of architecture, it is easy to
assign almost to any building its epoch Of erection
Hence we conclude that the house standing on the
garden farm, under review, must be of the mos
ancient French buildings in the country. We have
already stated in former numbers that the building
e materials, Cypress timber,l employed in tn
first houses erected in our city, were procured on
~ of the then very abundantly provided cypress for
y ests. Out Of these primitive wilds the best an
10 stoutest forest trees would be selected-the tim
4; Der thus chosen received the necessary seasoning
al and for this reason it is no wonder that nearly a
the most ancient buildings in and around the cit
40 of New Orleans should present the curious spec
IN taele of such long resistance to the climatic eff
. fects Ave, where we have seen brick bull
10 houses, erected since the transfer in 1908, in
=. comparative state of decomposition, we have no
r, ticed along side, or nearly in juxtapOstion oil
If creole cypress houses, without paint or outsid
A. protection, in complete state of soundness AM
70 durability, which dated from the time of Frencl
y and Spanish colonization. Indeed, there is not
q more curious and at the same time more inter
g. esng spectacle in our city, than the infinite vari
i ETY. of architectural constructions the innumerabl
m diversity of style Of houses, both ancient an
At modern which New Orleans presents to tn
ar stranger in all its sections and quarters We, th
is inhabitants are so much accustomed to this dali
as view that we find nothing extraordinary in thi
& medley of fine houses and tumbling down shantie
of but ii is not so to the casual visitor who for tn
,r first time, sets his foot upon the leyee, and who
e. indeed struck with this most extrayagant sight {
81 all the different domestic buildngs-all sorts an
Of Sizes colors and fashions, that the utmost fame
~ may be capable of combining, This is not alor
confined to what is styled the old city proper al
se ancient suburbs for we find exactly this infini
CIV variety continued from year to year. and in eyel
ID. quarter of our extended city limits so that v
bv may well assume that every particular architec
and every especial owner of a piece of prOpert
has taken it into bis head not to build after son
known model, hut to invent something yet untrit
me in tue way of architectural undertaking. Son
ie thirty years ago, building societies were forme
- in order as was then stated, to bring into fas
lu' ion little more uniformity of building, and Il
ia result of these lower and upper associations ms
re- still be seen IN the rows of buildings called Il
in9 Architects buildings, Of which is situate
'n' between Port and St. Ferdinand, Casa CalvO al
~ Moreau Streets in the Third District. Anoth
u row of the same company will be found on Roy
ny street, between Ursuline and Hospital. The
o. were so far the achievements of the down toy
company; whilst in the second municipality the
d now the First District fine row of houses
inc Julia street, between ST. Charles and Camp, a
ing some other rows on Delord and Carondel
ma streets, were erected, which final result d
: not, however, correspond with the expectatio
= of the parties, and hence we have not seen Il
od enterprise renewed of bringing some little u
ley formity in the building structure, which nj
Il ornament or disfgure the front sides of go
u, many OF our streets After all, it may be as
a. to leave the utmost latitude to city builders
ost erecting their own mansions at all events, this
nd one undeniable proof Of the building liberty {
me listing in our country and will remain as an ind
lis putable testimony in that respect; whilst
European capitals, very often the owners {
sre obliged to build in certain style or fashion,
MI order of the supreme authority, under the plea
ide thus identifying the imperial or royal cities,
ag- the case may be.
the Speaking of the lower sugar refinery, viii,
the like the former tobacco warehouses, belonged