The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-07
= C . GARDENS WITH 5000 PLANTS.
Baltimore Man Has Made . Bare Yard
 a Mass of Blooms.

Baltimore Man Has Made Bare Yard
 . Mass of Blooms.
 Baltimore News.
 From a veritable wilderness Charles H. S. Brannan has succeeded in trans forming the yard about his home, No. S,660 Falls Road, near Fourth Avenue, Hampden, into one huge flower bed. Though his lot is just 150 feet square, MT. Brannan asserts that 1t contains something like 5000 plants and twen- ty-six fruit trees, each plant and tree arranged so as to show to advantage from the street.
 In the side yard is a big running rosebush-a crimson rambler-which, until a few weeks ago, was covered with blossoms. But there are now oth- CT roses to take its place. In one of the beds is a large Paul Neyron bush, which MT. Brannan declares produces tho largest rose that grows, and he proudly asserts that last summer he plucked one from the bush that meas ured seven inches across. A bed of coleus, with cannas for a centerpiece, Is conspicuous in the side yard and they never want for water, there being a fountain in the centre of the bed. Until this summer Mir. Grammar had an old sailboat near the bed, in which were planted flowers of various kinds. and vines formed the sails. This, however, gradually routed away, and 1t was in such a dilapidated state at the end of winter that 1t was decided not to use 1t another season.
 On either side of the walk around the house and extending down through the rear yard are plants of all kinds yucca hydrangeas, nasturtiums, phlox, Japanese lilies, tuberose, crape myrtle tree, gladiolus yara weed. pinks, dah- lias, sunfowers and hundreds of oth- CTS. The rose bushes number alone over 200, and the fruit trees include plums, peaches, pears, apples and cher ries MT. Brannan's pear crop this year will be unusually large. but the pears are of a late variety In the rear of the yard Is a large grape arbor, and this, together with some huge hy- drangea bushes and big rosebushes and other plants, helps to screen the rear portion of the yard, thereby deceiving the passerby as to the real extent of the garden. There is no grass, or at least very little, in the rear yard. all being given over to flowers There are over 1000 plants in this part, and each is given the greatest care.
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 Girl Ascends Top of Mt. Hood.
 Portland, Oregon-With a cheese sandwich for a ration, Miss Clara Webb, a young woman, climbed Mount Hood in record time.
 There were eleven in Miss Webb's party, but she was the only one who attempted the ascent. She went to the summit with another pary of fifteen.
 Miss Webb had not expected to make the trip to the summit, so had little time to prepare for the journey. In her hand she carried cheese sand wich, and that, with ice which she picked up on the way, constituted her rations for the day.
 One cheese sandwich Is short ra- lions for a mountain climber, and if 1t had not been for the ice, am afraid I should have been exhausted" said he.
 T slept in blankets all the time we were gone, and I slept in blankets at the snow line one night. We started about o'clock In the morning and reached the summit about l o'clock.
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