House and Garden 
The place was after¬ 
wards called “ Uphton 
Court,” and has passed 
through a number of 
different hands. “Lau¬ 
sanne” is today as per¬ 
fect an example of the 
formal gardening of 
that period and section 
as can be found. No 
old gardens in America 
are planned on quite 
such a heroic scale as 
these. The rich South¬ 
ern gentleman ot the 
early and middle nine¬ 
teenth century was a 
man of large schemes. 
With unlimited labor 
TOPIARY WORK IN THE SOWELL GARDEN 
at his command (and 
labor is the positive 
quantity of every garden), his ideals were 
more colored by the picturesque and im¬ 
pressive than the smug. 
Take some of the old Salem gardens, which 
are characteristic of the Northern or New 
England work, and compare them with these 
at Camden. The difference of style is at 
once pronounced. It is due to two causes— 
first, the conception; second, the varieties 
of shrubs used in carrying out this con¬ 
ception. Box, commonly employed in New 
THE HOUSE AT “HOLLY HEDGE 
England, is seldom seen in the far South. 
Privet, so generally used in modern gar¬ 
dens, was unknown in that section when 
the Camden gardens were planted. The 
shrub most employed by Mr. Crammond 
and his local contemporaries was the South 
Carolina olive, a most useful evergreen, with 
small, polished leaves, a blossom not unlike 
that of the flowering olive seen in green¬ 
houses, and a fragrance resembling the odor 
of the orange; hence its popular name—mock- 
orange. The South 
Carolina olive, left to 
itself, flowers very early 
in the spring,along with 
the yellow jasmine and 
the Camellia Japonica , 
but when used as a 
hedge and constantly 
clipped the blossoms 
do not appear. Unlike 
the privet, pruning, 
though it has no ap¬ 
preciable effect on the 
vigor of the plant, 
seems to wholly arrest 
its tendency to bloom. 
The South Carolina 
olive lends itself to 
various treatments in 
big and little; it is 
well suited to the 
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