The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
NEWS OF THE DAY
 IN SOCIETY WORLD Flower Growing a Hobby at
 Summer Resorts THE DAYS EVENTS 
 
July Is the Month of Hydrangeas. Birthday Party-Tea at the Country Club-Other So-
 cial Notes
By MYRTLE MILES

A summer visitor to South Hampton writes of its flowers The native sand, when overlaid with strata of rich earth, il has been found, works wonders and the cottagers have made flower sowipg a hobby this summer. He says
 'rhe dunes are made to produce all manner of choice exotics, and great is
 the sood-natured rivalry among these anna teur flower growers, many of whom, however, are aided and abetted by pro- fess sional gardeners. Everybody is ready to admire the plants of his or her neigh bor and everybody secretely intends to outdo that neighbor at some future time. Naturally the love of flowers has resulted in a growing interest in the Horticultural society which is to hold It's fifth annual exhibitions on the Art museum grounds on 1uly 26 and 27. Every member of the adv isory committee has so beautiful a garden it would be difficult to say which one would be selected if one were giv- en the choice. MT Samuel l.. Parrish, the chairman of the committee, has a typical American garden that twas prob ably begun a century ago. It is filled
 WILL iiOWciiuS puSiltS dlt olli upS etHu iS Q riot of roses, some of which are al- ways a-bloom. Everyone is enthusiastic over Redcroft, the garden of Mrs. Charles c. Franklyn, far out on the OK pasture road but on their way there they never fail to cast admiring glances over the privet at Mrs. Thomas Cauldwell's grounds On her place hard by the ocean Mrs. Peter Wyckoff hi rxytl1 atinnS and m Mrs. E. Aymar Sands estate the land- scape effects are enchanting"
 A local flower lover the other day won- cred why more space and care is not given to the cultivation of the hydrangea and the peony. Both flowers, however, are seen more often than ever before for their possibilities in a decorative sense are more clearly realized. New port. according to Town and Country mag azine is one big splash of color just now because of the hydrangea. and the effect must be exquisitely vivid.
 June says a writer in that interesting periodical may be the month of roses and of brides for all the wide country, put TOT NeWpOTl ll6lt IS d Iliolo dttidttiN0 month-July, the month of hydrangeas. From the picturesque vine-entwned casino to Bailey's Beach, Bellevue ave- nue is a riot of color There is the deli cate peach blow, the more vivid pink, the brilliant blue, set in backgrounds of heavy green. Even the unimaginative barge driver points with pride to the creat cll1nns that decorate the grounds of Inchlquin, the Baroness Selliere's place and explains that each bush bears a thou sand blooms every season. This year, Seechwood, the home of Col John Jacob Astor. and Beaulieu, the Cornelius Van derbuilt place. vie with each other The hydrangeas of Beechwood are massed on the lawns, those of Bealilieu outline the driveways, each are things of beauty in their own way. And close at hand is By the-Sea, with it's hydrangea terraces, where perhaps Mrs. August Belmont may hold garden parties during August. The older Newporters like to recall the out door parties given by MT. Belmonts mother, the first Mrs. August Belmont. In those days the terraces were ornament ed by marble statues and roses. Those were the times of which MT. Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote so vivacious- y. It was this kindly critic who first placed the hydrangea before the rose, and his great friend, the late William T. Richards, made sketches of these flowers. They hung far many years in Nr Richards quaint studio near Cod dinytfu Cove