A garden that has the spirit of the Colonial times —seclusion, maturity, a certain formality, flowers for sentiment rather than display, permanence, evergreen 

 growth (a symbol of immortality), and above all, a masterful sense? of design which speaks of personality and home life — not mere show 



The imperishable dignity and charm of the Southern ante-bellum home. The magnolia is the grandest broad-leaved evergreen tree of sub-tropical regions, and 

 box is the most aristocratic of all broad-leaved evergreen shrubs. In such a place flowers would be petty, impertinent, undignified 



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