Confederate Veteran, Vol. 35

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Excerpt from Confederate Veteran, Vol. 35: November, 1927 Middleton Place Gardens are a few miles farther up _the Ashley River, on the same road. It is a splendid estate, origi nally owned by the Middleton family, but has, in the last few years, been inherited by Mr. Pringle Smith, of Charleston, who spends, practically, his whole time in having them kept in absolute perfection. Here the landscape gardening, with wide open spaces going down to the Ashley River, of which there are lovely views everywhere, is the great feature, but there are also many historic associations connected with the place, dating back. To pre-revolutionary' days. The ¿owers are indescribably beautiful, which is about all that' can be said. One wing of the old Tudor mansion is still standing, and is occupied by Mr. Smith and his family, but the rest of the house, all but its marble steps, was destroyed by the Federals on one of their raids around Charleston. Still farther up the river is the town of Summerville, whose inhabitants seem to delight in showing what they can do in the horticultural line. There, Wisteria vines in the spring hang their purple clusters from pine tree tops one hundred feet above the ground, and in the yards are masses of azalea bushes of every conceivable color and shade, from ¿aming red to the most brilliant yellow. For a gorgeous feast of color, I do not know a greater pleasure than a seat on a Summerville piazza of a fine spring afternoon, with, in front of you, a great bush of azaleas in full bloom with the sun shining over it. Heaven pity a poor color-blind person then! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.