The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-11
Flowers and FzoDer GrotDers
 Official Organ of Montgomery Flower Grower Association
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 lands by a rampant rose vine, that
 seems to have departed with many
 other good things of that olden day.
 Funereal rows of cedars waved their
 plumes between the house and the
 fierce rays of the Southern sun, on the
 west. Three hundred feet of breadth to the first terrace gave the owner no
 spasms of despair then, as 1t would
 now. While the terrace on each side of
 the house, elevated about two feet
 were reserved for bulbs and violets
 Out across the avenue. between the
 home and city, and occupying all the slope to the Hubbard property, was a grand orchard. Here were walnut trees--both native and English: beach, es of every known variety; such Eng fish White Heaths as would hold their
 own with those grown In California go
 far away! pears that knew no blight
 but came true to their names and na- ture! quinces-well, where have the dear old fruit trees gone? Does any,
 one know anything nowadays about that most delicious confection-quince preserves that Mother or Grandmother made7 Right out in the midst of that wonderland, there grew a giant tree a tree so big. so wide of spread. so am- ole of shade, so burdened with its load
 of luscious, pale yellow june apples, that the new owners immediately nam-
 ed it the Garden of Eden Apple.y
 Piums, such as we never see nowa-
 days grew in orderly rows. while down on the ditch banks at the property
 line. they rioted in a profusion that
 hlled the darkies of the happy time
 with delight Near the wonderful ap- pie tree, were rows of that delicious nrst-cousin to the peach, the nectar A.. ~zlI l~a nnw.
 and red in true harlequin fashion, and
 ohl so good! Why is 1t that our fruit
 within the reach of the less-rich-than- Rockefeller-is so flavorless- Why
 have we come down to only one peach the Elberta--which I believe those old gardeners would have demurred at? And the melons! They were brought up in triumphal procession in carts, while a string of prancing, re-
 joicing little fat darlxies chorused
 their sure Knowledge that "oie Miss | would spread them a bountiful feast shortly!
 The yard-stick was always kept handy, for it the dusky melon raiser
 was rewarded or felt the seasons had | been unkind. When Ole Miss" waved that trenchant wand, and deciared | 'It was just the very longest ever raised in that nefghborhood. and that
 Mrs. Goode and Mrs. Bradford would
 have to come to test its merits" that was a proud son of Ham, son of Adam | The First Gardner!
 Many changes followed the change of ownership. Elaborate brick fences | and terraces. in Italian style, replaced 1 the rotting wooden 1attiees and steps; but not one floral treasure was sacri- fced, for that little women who now reigned supreme, had been reared in q quaint colonial garden of Old Cheraw
 S. C., and had been taught the art and craft of good gardening by a grand mother who had had her handiwork destroyed by Tarleton and his Ondian band.
 She knew the medicinal as we'll as household use of herb and simple" as Shakespeare has 1t, and in this new
 home of hers was to be found a speci- ! men of nearly everything to make the garden rich as well as gay. So, she fol- lowed the carpenter in his rounds. as we'll as her own gardner--a wonderful German--in whose hands she quickly found treasures safe. Those things he
 was stranger to, he preserved until
 "The Madame" as he called the mis- tress, could introduce them. So great
 lover of plants was German Charlie" that he protested against the
 wholesale slaughter of infant elm trees that was found necessary; he carefully
 remove them with his trowel and made a nursery for them (saying, 'The
 little allums Gas he called them) would
 make big trees after awhile"
 The overgrown box was trimmed
 back in to prim rows for borders to
 those many and varishaped. beds. A
 new frame was provided for the giant LaaMarque rose that bore such huge
 and fragrant clusters. The Luxemburg
 rose tree--under which the writer nearly suffered the fate of Absolem-
 the La Reine. the Lorraine, and the
 Picayuras that had outgrown them-
 selves, were all divested of their dying
 branches with the healing skill Of Q
 surgeon. And how they repaid the workl Such blossoms as filled that
 world of South Montgomery with
 sweetness! Early spring found the
 mocking birds nesting in the tree white, and melon eolored banners to
 shield the tiny folk in the straw houses from the too ardent sun. Two giant cedars due west from the house
 were considered the peculiar property | of the red birds and cat birds: here | they founded a peaceful colony and | each tribe for thirty years enjoyed | that home unmolested.
 A row of Cinnamon roses just be- meath the myrtles. were among the first pink harbingers of spring. Un-
 der the shelter afforded by the slend- CT stems of the Cinnamons a broad row of dafrodils vied with the sun in spreading a golden glory for the feet of Spring. Many crescent shaped beds
 provided intrieacies in the strolls of many pairs of lovers who sought the friendly screens of that wealth of