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SOUTH CAROLINA 



There are few new gardens in South Carolina, but an 

 untold number of old ones deserving to be revived. Around 

 Charleston, especially, old-time mansions, quaint walls, 

 and gateways abound that are an inspiration to lovers 

 of graceful antiquities. To restore an abandoned garden 

 must be indeed a joy to one with enough imagination to 

 recreate flower places fitted to the surroundings. 



The illustrations in this chapter give some idea of the 

 richness of the early gardens laid out by the wealthy owners 

 of many generations past. Magnolia-on-the-Ashley, con- 

 sidered by some as one of the world's most beautiful sights, 

 especially in springtime, is the most famous place in the 

 State. It is owned by Colonel Drayton Hastie, who in- 

 herited it from his grandfather, the Reverend Mr. Dray- 

 ton, an Episcopalian minister, in whose family it had re- 

 mained since the latter part of the seventeenth century. In 

 the days of the Reverend Mr. Drayton it was discovered 

 that the garden had been laid out over land containing 

 extremely valuable phosphate deposits, but neither he nor 

 his descendants would have the place disturbed for the 

 sake of an increased fortune, and the garden continues as 



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