The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-10
me yanaary Me.ssne.


 AS the Flower Lovers boarded the cars for Green Acres, for their New Years meeting, there were warm and cordial greetings for one another. This Association has been the sweetest bond between these refined women, holding them to gentiest courtesy end tender observance of the small but beautiful amenities of life.
 As the Cloverdale car sped out Into over the wonderful weather we had en- joyed all through the Christmas sea son and into the year 1909.
 Such roses! Had this one, or that one seen the white wreaths of bloom on the Clancey Home on South Court Street? Did anyone suppose that the artists of the city had taken a snap shot?"
 Then the cameiias had just rioted in producing "Christmas trees" There was one in MT Keniworth's yard on South Hull -four hundred block), that had first bioomed a regular Confeder- ate bouquet-the biossoms striped and blofched red and white;;" just as the prdfusion of bloom began to abate. oth- CT portions of the/ bush broke Into flower. some pure white, while others werp a vivid crimson!
 An enthusiastic company trouped up the steps of the Presidents hospitable home and into the warmth and glow of leapins fires and smiling faces. Hap py New Year" was heard In hearty tones from all sides. An added pleas ure was that of the presence of Mrs. Vim, Mrs. Gayle's mother--the Asso- ciation feels such a debt of gratitude to her for her gracious daughter!
 The lighthearted chatter subsided as the President called the meeting to or der. The minutes were read and ap- proved. Then the interest grew ln- tense as Mss Andrews told of discov- ering a genuine plant of Japanese bamboo-the edible kind, about which there has been so much talk in the pa- pers. lately. It seems that long years ago when Henry W. Hilliard was q nember>of Congress, an ambassador to Belgium and a citizen of Montgomery mot all at the same time, however. but honors came his way thick and fast--he had been instrumental in bringing these plants to Montgomery for experimental purposes. The changes attendant upon the civil war. submerg- ed this intelligent effort, yet one plant has survived, and 1t Is fact, that 1t Is one of the originals. Miss Andrews talked most interestingly of this plant and It's useful properties. She had been in correspondence with the Agricultu- ral Department at Washington. and a supply of plants to start the Flower Lovers in their experimentations with the edible bamboo will be shipped to Miss Andrews as soon as she signifies the time What pleasant anticipations stir the hearts of these plant lovers!
 Then the President desired discus- sion on the part of all present of some suitable subject to present to the Hor- ticultural Society at it's annual meet ing.
 It was unanimously agreed that a vigorous and hearty protest should be presented (and cooperation asked) against the wanton destruction of our native beautiful growths. Everyone is familiar with the wholesale destruo- ton of the holly trees. The country negro cuts the whole tree for the sake of a few limbs whose loss the tree could easily sustain, yet, all goes. and few days after Christmas the trash wagon picks up the poor dead wreck and hauls it away. So goes a thing Of beauty, that might have been so used as to yield a supply of Christmas ber- ries for many years There surely must Dc some way-throngh the Legislature, gpeFilapsz-ko eontrol this. Many people report that they have '.postedYs their lands to save their holly trees an9.Awith little avail, as, the whole tre& have disappeared!