The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-06
d. MRS WALTER GROCE

6Y MINI. w AL LIN WV
If you wish to see one OF the
beauty spots found in and around
the city then drive out the Fiat
Rock road till you come to Fland-
er's avenue, turn there to your
left and you find right in front
of Mrs. Troth's nice new home
with it's bright little rockery IN
the bank, vine clad pergola
with its precious burden of II
different climbing roses all We
ing with one another in putting
forth the greatest number OF
lovely blossoms. Through this
flower laden bower you enter the
lovely little sunken garden that
l. N. Troth during his life time
planned and beautified. Mr..
Black. a brother-in-law, is SUI
pervising it now, so he kindly
took us in to see every thing.
This parklet is rectangular III
shape with the west side border
ed in old-fashioned spice pinkS
fortunately these were being
thinned out and we were all
given a most generous supply
with which to beautify part OF
the city and individual yards l..
Then the west side was bright
with any number of blooming
plants while against the rear end
were massed Towering shrubs,
and also climbing roses. These
form a barrier against the nortA
winds.
In the center was a lovely pool
with bleeding hearts bordering 1t,
the bottom was covered with
light colored pebbles, and upon
the top of the water rode the
flat leaf of the pond lily through
which at many points the large
pink lily reared its head. Under
this lily pad many gold fish play
ed at hide-and-seek. These we
Judged constituted a partial
school of fish, and since they had
had good training they were nice
and polite. We noted that they
had their balanced ration OF
vegetable diet along with bread
crumbs. We were told that a
plant named Parrots Feather and
one named Monkeys Tail would
grow in pools and f~rnlsh food
| for the fish. Mr.. Black also said
he had found when the water be-
came cloudy at the bottom that
if you would drop in some small
pieces of copper the water would
become more clarified Another
person said dropping in a little
alum would cause the water to
clear up. However, we do not
know whether the latter would
hurt the fish or not.
On the outside of this parkIet
We saw a fine vegetable garden
that had in it also some old-tlme
favorites like thyme, rue, sage,
pepper-grass, and heliotrope; then
came a fine strawberry patch by
the side of a deep well-kept ditch.
Mr.. Black said this was a lazy
mans patch. When we failed to
guess the reason for that name
he explained that all you had to
do was to stand upright in the
ditch and pick the berries, the
ditch eliminated the inconven-
fence of STOPPING. We believe it
took a smart man to think that
plan up and make the ditch &C
cording1y. If we had more Of his
ingenuity in the south, why the
poor cotton pickers would be
spared many back-acheT.
Next to that came a very
pretty and healthy little flower
bed planted and cultivated by
Paul, a young nephew. He point
| ed out red maple that Paul had
selected the site for because he
said any one entering the avenue
from either end would catch sight
of its bright foliage first thing.
Paul may be an embryo landscape
gardener. On the lawn we saw
pink Towering dog wood, catalpa
end varigated holly. Back of the
houses were a vineyard, an apple
orchard, and a splendid Irish po-
tato patch. My! but the soil there
looked so productive. AS it is new
ground there must be lots of
richness in it. All around the
house were the finest flowers
everything we had seen in Druid