Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . ire. Desolation beside this wing showswhere the home, proper, was. Fortunately the gar-den of Middleton Barony was not destroyed andthis is a very beautiful sight, especially in the earlyor middle spring when the azaleas and altheas arein bloom. Speaking of gardens, however, inevitably callsto mind the garden of Drayton Hall, a next-doorneighbor of Middleton Barony. As with the latter,j Drayton Ha
Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia . ire. Desolation beside this wing showswhere the home, proper, was. Fortunately the gar-den of Middleton Barony was not destroyed andthis is a very beautiful sight, especially in the earlyor middle spring when the azaleas and altheas arein bloom. Speaking of gardens, however, inevitably callsto mind the garden of Drayton Hall, a next-doorneighbor of Middleton Barony. As with the latter,j Drayton Hall, the house, is merely a memory, butthe garden remains. In this garden have been cul-tivated for a hundred years azaleas of all kinds, andduring the blooming season it is a bewildering con-vocation of color. Another drive that will interest the most unro-mantic of mortals, especially visitors from Massa-chusetts, is the drive to the ruined town of Dorches-ter, about three miles from Summerville and on theAshley. Dorchester, it will be remembered, wasfounded by an offshoot colony of Puritans fromMassachusetts, who came to this locality about thebeginning of the Eighteenth century. It is a182. IN SUMMERVILLE pathetic story,—this story of the founding and ex-tinction of Dorchester, but one that would need acanvas very much larger than this one to be setforth upon. The colony flourished for a while, buteventually it was overcome by the unfamiliar con-ditions of the climate which these stern fathers didnot in the least undertsand. These Pilgrims buildedwell, however, where they did build; the ruins ofthe old Dorchester church are still an impressivespectacle, and scattered walls and chimneys hereand there on the site of the ancient city give amelancholy reminder that human beings oncef worked industriously and hopefully here. It wasmalaria that overthrew Dorchester, a sneaking, in-sidious enemy against which these worthy peopleknew no safeguard. Summerville is rapidly becoming a
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