The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30

finger, and its capacity for raveiing Is Is ro,Ialied to The Wandering Jew; |. has been known to cross the stree, oii telegraph wire. The bloom IS ,hs'sn punches of purple grapes. made s.s :,,i, ouaintance first last su inner. anu wni invite 1t to my bower this season a,asv if is an emblem of strength ana pieniy ,s and brings again the vision or the o'0 garden at home.
 How the Concord vines entranced me-
 Drinking from their purple glooes'
 And their green arms round me reaching
 Touched me as with royal rooes.
 The requests to continue these papers come like the pleadings of the sick for something sour--a change of diet-some- thing that effervesces. perhaps. Eight tei- ephones have talked to me about the prose-posm in last Sundays Advertiser. Editors doct DTS. poets and hower-lovers in general were making praise. ana all because of my "florid style" l heard or man once who boasted that ne did no fiorid writing. Guess not. Who ever helc a blow line and plodded and turned up A daisy except Robert Burns? Mrs Browning ms explained that contempt uous reference to the non-poetic brain'
 What we do for bread will taste
 Of common grain--not grapes.
 The man or woman who Is 70 handle flowers, fruits and songs requires real rose bud pen. It must move naturdilE' and be no more thwarted by maehln- fin its path than is a fountain when a dust ball is tossed its way.
 Flowing is a task. saw an old horse balk in wet field the other day. Tne blow follower jerked his rope. and shouted and finally reached for clod before the animal would move. But we are not corn growing. ,..,o.,
 I do not think that the professional landscape gardeners work in certaln yards about the city should ne di'V"ea it ,s a to compete with the amateur s. It IS 4 fact though that the stereotyped anu posted effects of such gardens Will III no way interfere with us. l prefer the nat ural at all times. and would exch ,. iltss rs every day of mine in Lincoln Park TOT the few hours drive across the neaut,I VI Biltmore grounds. l do hope that when the nrofessional yar1-maker reacAra Heaven that I can transplant rev moles to upturn some of the eVenness ol his designs. What we want Is undulatloh curves, anything but hatness Tn the landscape and gardens. ., Don't you believe a word anout the CT y against vines on the plea rh1u hoes ,ney o'f If Ia a mistake. They protect them ron dust and the blste ins power oi Ing M southern sun Plant some Nnes' my friends. ,..o. ,.;,od ,l,us
  to me through her telephone: T nave just beer drinking your letter about TOW, pd ers and vines; drive out to my orchard S Sa nacl y1ur buggy with fruit tree SIoom." Think of such priyilege-peal and peach, and perhaps an apple blossom nicked from any orchard except the one pt inc old homestead away off in the Bluegrass state shall al sSo% So 9u1 mt So gra9 TaG ,.s,1n but inc first apple tree that meets me with those shell-hke petals, of love. iiness will find my face bending oyer oyer the boughs. and my tears dripping iast What wouldn't [ exchange of my pos sessions today just for one more 1s sWine under the old apple tree at home. whert inc pink petals are falling all over ane about me?
 lust for one hour to sit there.
 HunninE a song as l used to do,
 And counting the clouds in the sky's sof' blue,
 vould help me better to explain why ,1-s. tha na,tdoors. and can so 6uthhlly