An Incomparable Stroll
Prints and Plants of Old Gardens, by Kate Doggett Boggs.
A book for those who would like to produce a border, or a fence, or a complete garden and want an old design. The drawings and illustrations were taken from rare prints and books difficult to find and expensive to buy. The author gathered her data from American and English gardens of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. The appendix contains a list of thousands of plants. The botanical names were traced and arrangement into groups made by Dr. and Mrs. Bayard Hammond of the Botanical Department of Johns Hopkins University. 10 × 13 inches. Drawings and illustrations. $5.00.
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Southern Antiques, by Paul H. Burroughs.
This book covers the field of furniture-making over a period of two hundred years, from 1620 to 1820, and is concerned with that part of the old South which comprised the original colonies of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. The text is arranged by sections according to the kinds of furniture illustrated and described. Profusely illustrated. 8½ × 11 inches. Drawings and illustrations. $5.00.
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Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, edited by Susanne Williams Massie and Frances Archer Christian for the Garden Club of Virginia.
This book tells of more than one hundred and fifty homes and gardens in every part of the Old Dominion. The authors include H. J. Eckenrode, Lyon G. Tyler, Rosewell Page, Alexander Weddell, Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Arthur Kyle Davis, Robert A. Lancaster, Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy) and many others. 6¾ × 9½ inches. 130 full-page illustrations. $5.00.
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Thomas Jefferson: Architect and Builder, by I. T. Frary.
This is the first book published covering Jefferson’s complete work as an architect. The unusually fine photographs were made by the author and include exteriors, interiors, detail studies and landscapes, as well as reproductions of Jefferson’s original drawings. I. T. Frary, author, lecturer, teacher, is an authority on architecture. Covers stamped in gold. Introduction by Fiske Kimball. 8½ × 11 inches. 96 full-page illustrations. $5.00.
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In the Picturesque Shenandoah Valley, by Armistead C. Gordon.
The story of the great Valley of Virginia told as only Armistead Gordon could tell it—of its scenery, its streams and mountains, its many caverns, and better than all, its famous people. 6 × 9 inches. Maps and illustrations. $2.50.
GARRETT & MASSIE, Publishers
Richmond, Virginia
$1.00
It is said that from the tops of the highest buildings in Charleston come under the eye more historic places than come under it from any other point in the United States. The book tells the history of those places. The Charles Town that was and the Charleston this is are brought before the reader. Names of eminent Carolinians pass in review and the greatness of the lustrous past is linked with the present.
In Charleston survive scars of wars and storms and fires that raged in the long ago. It has had part in Indian, Spanish and French wars. It has had bold adventure with pirates. It was conspicuous in the Revolution and in the War for Southern Independence.
The fame of Middleton Place, Magnolia, and Cypress gardens is world-wide. Annually thousands of people visit Charleston to walk about these wonderful gardens that are a living reminder of the beauty wrought before the American Revolution.
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Thomas Petigru Lesesne, author and editor, is a member of a family that has been distinguished in South Carolina since Charleston was a British outpost in a savage land.