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The Garden Magazine, November, 1923 
“WHILE ALL THE FLOWERS AND TREES DO CLOSE 
TO WEAVE THE GARLANDS OF REPOSE!” 
Andrew Marvell 
“Nothing so free and gracious, so lovely and wistful, nothing 
so richly colored, yet so ghostlike, exists, planted by the sons 
of men. It is a kind of paradise which has wandered down, a 
miraculously enchanted wilderness. Brilliant with Azaleas, 
or Magnolias, overhung by tall trunks wanly festooned with 
the gray Florida Moss, beyond anything 1 have ever seen, it 
is other-worldly.” So writes (in “The Century Magazine,” 
July, 1921) that master British novelist, John Galsworthy, of 
Magnolia Gardens near Charleston, South Carolina (See 
also Mrs. Fox’s description, page 150 of this issue; and on 
page 152 a detailed account by E. H. Wilson of the famous 
“Indian Azaleas”) 
