The age-herald., 1900-12-23
Interesting Talk With Mr Huffman
 the English Gardener MRS. RAULSTON'S STUDIO Alabama Club Women to Discuss E du- eatonaI Measures Looking to
 Needed improvements During
 the New Year-ln Society
BY ANNIE KENDRIcK WALKER.

BY ANNIE KENDRlCK WALKER.
 .''Would you send her American beauties or carnations" asked one of Birmingha m s most prominent beaux yesterday of mar ried woman who was a great friend of the girls
 American beauties, she-told him unhesl- tatingly and I am sure that the florist heard from him before the day was oVer
 I was told, by the way, day or two ago that the Christmas orders for flowers exceeded in number that of a year ago, and that more than one pretty belle would be delighted with floral beauties on Christ mas morning. It may not be exactly ethi- cal after this statement to discuss the cost of roses, but since in Birmingham is grown for the first time superb American beau ties as have ever been shipped here from northern markets, the cost of these blos- sons, as well as the price upon the flow CTS of the season, will be interesting.
 Mir Lindsay, who no longer depends solely upon outside markets, but who sup plies Birmingham with floral beauties plucked from his own hot houses, in speak ing of the Christmas orders referred to the American beauties which are selling from ST. to 5000 per dozen; roses from $1.5O to $3.0O; carnations from 75 cents to $1.5O hyacinths at S1.00; narsissisuses at $1; double violets from $3.OO to $500 per hun dred.
 With the beauty of the floral windows at Lindsay's, Parkers, Curry's, and Smiths, which seems emphasized by the mass of brilliant blooms at the holidays, there seems no necessity on the part of Birming- ham to encourage any private winter gar dens, for the florists are fully equipped to supply all demands.
 The pOSSihilitiRs of RirTOipgharn in tho growth of private gardens was being dis cussed recently by group of Birmingham women who were especially interested in the landscape featurs, realizing that Bir-- mingham could never be a beautiful city unless more attention be given to land scape effects
 They thought right step had been made in the removal of the fences, for the most ideal landscape effects would be ruined by rows of unsightly fences. The gardens, bare of either bloom or foliage, were yet attractive when shorn of the fences, and where fences were removed the length of long avenue. there was an inducement well a necessity for every advantage to be taken in beautifying the gardens.
 Of Birmingham's possibilities in land scape effects, MT. G. E. Huffman, the well known English landscape gardner, whose work has added so greatly to the beauty of many Birmingham gardens, speaks en- thusiastlcally. MT. Huffman has had an experience in flower culture of more than thirty years, the greater part of which was spent on English country seats. He was for several years one of the Queens estates at Celcey Forest in North Hamp- tonshire, and MT Huffman directed much of the work on the estate of Lord Bramlow, one of the finest old places in England, He was also on the estate of Lord Lands downe, the present Secretary of War, and he naturally has enjoyed every advantage in landscape gardening. Since coming to America, MT. Huffman has superintended the work on many of the fine old places on the Hudson river and dn the South numbers of private gardens have been made picturesque and beautifpf by his>a tistic directions.
 It was most interesting to hear him re- call the beauty of the English gardens, which reminded one of the remark address ed to an English landscape gardener by an American millionaire The latter, in his admiration of an English lawn, expressed his wish for a reproduction" and asked the gardener how it could be accomplished.
 "Six hundred yards of rolling and cut ting" answered the gardener.
 MT. Huffman, in speaking of the gardens here said that Birmingham man had asked him how long 1t required to make a perfect lawn, and if it required to make a length of time that it did to make gen tleman.
 MT. Huffman pronounces both the soil and climate of this immediate sectdon to be magnificently adapted for flower cui- ture. The possibilities for beautiful sum- mer and winter gardens rest with the in dividual, since there is every advantage in