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 . r patch filled with bright bloomsand in back of it a vegetable garden. The interiorsof the houses themselves seem to be something inthe nature of gardens, human gardens, judgingfrom the many cries of childish pleasure one hears,the many young faces he sees, as he walks alongthese winding ways. One of the show places of Summerville isthe tea plantation which the late Dr. CharlesU. Shepard successfu
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 . r patch filled with bright bloomsand in back of it a vegetable garden. The interiorsof the houses themselves seem to be something inthe nature of gardens, human gardens, judgingfrom the many cries of childish pleasure one hears,the many young faces he sees, as he walks alongthese winding ways. One of the show places of Summerville isthe tea plantation which the late Dr. CharlesU. Shepard successfully started and main-tained. This was the first successful exampleof tea growing in the United States, andDr. Shepards work was so carefully done andwas of so great value that the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture gave him specialassistance in his enterprise. One may buy/ this Summerville tea at the hotel or at thestores. It comes in pound packages and has avery good flavor, somewhat stronger, somewhatj cleaner tasting, to tell the truth, than the im-\ ported article. Since Dr. Shepards death thetea farm has been conducted by his heirs, andstill maintains the same atmosphere of cordi-180.
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