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4 4 4 ip 06 1 A floe "lir of -grkb 'kW Mountain Summer Estate Becomes Great Attraction Travelers On The Co To Europe THROUGH GARDEN GATE I Fascinating Lilies Featured At Show magsmommwenommoml (Tilt ellarlatte (Ohnrrurr qual horseback the lake Is open for public fishing Further back in the forested estate lands which reach across Flat Top Mountain Is Trout Lake a few minutes walk from a paved road It looks like a fisherman's dream come true The unpaved roads which circle Bass Lak and wind across the pastures and woodlands on the estate are reserved for pedestrian horseback or carriage use You can walk ride or drive for more than 20 miles Ivithout encountering a single automobile If you ride up to the crest of Flat Top Mountain you will see the graves of Mr dnd Mrs Cone surrounded by dark green spruce trees and a low iron fence en for 'rest- vach in Is mutes It man's cir wind or walk Ian 20 ing a crest will Mrs lark a low Sunday Aug 17 1958 15E she began the movement which resulted in the organization Of the guild and famous crafts centers now situated in the southern mountains From the front verandah of the Alanor House there is a beautiful vista of Bass Lake which in summer is dotted with pink and white water lilies Accessible only by foot or on ed 1 1 555i Az it rklt 55 rir0z i 5 1 i'-1144if IA) i 441t1744744 1 ri 4 416k cc 614 A 4e-Al 4 q1tr-1 Plillf4' ed i tkli i tl 'CII )-A 01 A 4 it 1 i 1 I W' Iit '') '44' (1' 0 I 1 t'''As 4 4'- c' 1 i -i et4ulik ii stv-40- A :1 2 I 7-41N) it I I 0 i tJ 4 tl 4 iii :1 4) 1 (1 tr4 1 1 1 9:0 i( ktNsto 0 kir4t A single bulb I' know is not a test but I was disappointed when what the catalogue described as "a stately stem four to six feet tall topped with a huge cluster of lovely flowers" turned out to be three-foot stalk bearing a single flower of dingy pink Mr de Graaffs Golden Clarion was better though not up to catalogue standards which may well have been the fault of the the lily I would take a good deal of trouble to establish these fine trumpets of clear pale yellow They say that they increase let you know later I TRIED ANOTHER trumpet Lilium formosanum Wilsoni because it is supposed to be the last to bloom coming along in September and October With me it bloomed the last day of July outstripping the catalogue lilies and growing to seven feet I often find that flowers that bloom in the fall in other climates bloom in summer here I planted three Sunburst hybrids because At I Dor mon gave a good report of their performance in Mile High Swinging Brit Igo NEW summer's disturbing headlines from the Middle East have had little effect on the American vacationist heading abroad reports the European Travel Commission Instead of a slump in transatlantic travel US tourists are leaving for Europe in record numbers with departures in recent weeks well above those for the comparable period of 1957 According to a survey just completed by the Commission midsummer departures by air for Europe range from 10 to nearly 24 per cent over last year's levels depending upon the air services involved Similarly a study by Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference of steamship sailings during the two-week period ending August 2 reveals that ship travel from the Port of New York to Europe was up 18 per cent over the comparable fortnightly period of a year ago A few cancellations did occur on lines serving the Mediterranean reports the Commission but this space was immediately snapped up by travel hungry on the steamships' waiting lists Major factors in the substantial increase in transatlantic travel this year have been the Brussels World's Fair the Centennial Observances at Lourdes and the introduction of Economy Class fares by the airlines serving Europe If eastbound traffic across the Atlantic continues at its present rate the European Travel Commission expects that well over 650000 US citizens will have crossed the Atlantic by the end of 1958 an all-time record In 1937 (itself a record year) 596276 US citizens departed from US ports by sea and air for Europe r---- ilt oit II t' '2 44: 2 a- -I -A 221 4:11 a 10: ''I''' 1 ATIIER MOUNTAI Ow 1 4thjtv 1 4414 NW ND SIVA 'v our otoyATVENTc Sint ulvaL to 'ilium Formosanum Wi hod ORIO By ELIZABETH LAWRENCE On June 20 1940 I went Fredericksburg to the Fourth Annual Lily show of the Garden Club of Virginia held in a big cool building on the campus of Martha Washington College It was one of the most delightful flower shows that I ever saw The show will be unusual" Violet Walker chaIrman of the Lily committee had written for Mr Kline is sending us 200 lilies which we are using in a blooming flower border If you have even one lily please exhibit!" I hadn't even one but after seeing all of the fascinating species from the committee' test garden which Violet carried on in her garden at Woodberry Forest tin addition to being the headmaster's wife and the editor of Garden Gossip) I came home and started to study the catalogues Of the various kinds that I tried only Ulm Ifenryi and the tiger lily were still living when I left Raleigh eight years later Since then I have bought few and planted only those that were given to me but last fall I decided to reconsider I bought several new lilies to see what they would do for me HAVING READ in the Flower Grower Jan de Graaff's praise of his Pink Perfection a strain "as uniform as hybrid corn more beautiful than any previously known pink trumpet lilies" I chose this as one for trial "New as they are" 7i1r de Graaf! wrote "these lilies present no risk They are fully acclimated and show true hybrid vigor in their growth Their anctstors came from more rugged areas than we can ever goe them mountain regions of central China" i I Summer Border 70---4 1T-- 1 0-444 iii '''''w-rtioatt41-''''-k -414 74-- n1- it ipii ri44 3 i 4 A let A '4 70 1114 )1kiri 'leg 14 A 44614er94 4- :7 wpow 0 -4' l''' A 4 III -14 'Si' i ti 4 viriS il :71 1 op "47A141 Itlerf! '1k 40 Li 04:00 If 0: i 11tAtrtif lkkiIP 7i vtio 9tvwNt 41ttkt4tfr flti ''''t fiqty it 'f 4 -S :1 16 4 l'''t tl 4r 1 4 'NA I 'eil 41 -Norlirxw 'Av- 4 le ivCA44 NOR CARO INA HENDERSONVILLE OSCEOLA LAKE INN on Lake Osceola Finest Jewish-American Cuisine) Dance Band Movies Swimming Pool Boating Fishing and all sports All rooms pri vete bath reasonable rates Joe Rubin Owner-Manager A NEW TRAVEL again I bad a single bulb I thought that five dollars was enough to Invest In an unknou quantity According to the catalogues five to six foot stems bear as many as seven flowers ten inches across My bulb produced a twenty-one inch stem with one eight inch flower a wide flat flovver like its parent auratum in shape and like its other parent speciosum in color WANT Sea-Air Cruises Cruise to the Mediterranean See Europe fly home All on a two-week vacation for as low as $718 A week at sea ahoard the INDEPENDENCE or CONSTITUTION A week in Europe Return overnight by air Three weeks as low as S818 Just call or write us for details and You own part of a 2600-acre summer estate in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains complete with fishing lakes riding and hiking trails and a 2I-room Manor House You get there over new roads that are part of the Blue Ridge Parkway most traveled of all National Park facilities summer estate is Moses Cone Memorial Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway It Blowing Rock As a part of the National Park system It belongs to all the people of the United States It was the late Moses Cone Greensboro textile magnate known as the "blue denim king" who acquired land built a white-columned summer home on it dammed up two mountain streams to form lakes and planted extensive apple orchards and pastures THAT TOOK PLACE around the turn of the century When Mr Cone died in 1908 his will specified that his widow would occupy the estate until her death It was then to become the property of the State of North Carolina Mrs Cone died in 1947 and a few years later the State of North Carolina transferred the estate to the Federal Government to become an attraction of the Blue Ridge Parkway Manor House is a sales and display center of the Southern Highlands Ilan dicraft Guild you a spend hours "just looking" at handmade articles ranging from fine furnishings and fabrics to intricate jewelry and whimsical carvings One of the rooms contains a small crafts museum displaying a handloomed coverlet which helped start the entire crafts revival in the Southern Appalachians It was woven by a mountain woman in 1955 and given to Miss Frances Foster Goodrich in 1895 MISS GOODRICH interested In developing the native talents and skills of the mountain people was so impressed with the fabric and workmanship that TRIP? Parks Southeast of Spartanburg on State Highway 56 Givhan's Ferry 131 rpile4 West of Summerville on State i Highway 61 Greenwood 17 miles East of Greenwood via State Highway 34 Hunting Island 16 milesi Southeast of Beaufort at the end of 21 Kings Mountain 12 miles i North of York on State Highway 161 Lee 6 miles Northeast of Bishopville off 15 Little Pee Dee 10 miles Southeast of Dillon off State! Highway 9 Myrtle Beach State Park miles South of Myrtle Beach on 17 Oconee 11 miles North of Walhalla via State Highways 28 and 107 Paris Mountain 7 miles North of Greenville off 25 Poinsett 18 miles Southwestl of Sumter via State High-1 1 ways 120 and 261 River's Bridge 13 miles East of Allendale on State High- way 641 Santee 13 miles Southwest of Summerton via 151 and State Highway 6 Table Rock 16 miles North of Pickens between 178 and State Highway 11 excellent for lawns cemetery plots gold courses private and motel golfing greens Complete instructions furnished I disease resistant low growing a rental plusgers are available from nursery Orders Please Ph JA 3-0733 4 I STATE MOTOR CLUB THE SOUTH'S LARGEST" Here Are Carolina 2422 North Tryon Street in the FALL rift I 1 set ling efoimi est rear Salter 111 sA YARMOUTH 1 sew ling tuipotil tot year Solely ii Sot 1A ---A ctr 4- ri i it tos dli1 4 if -eii dellI -rt iplo iftro- 4440444 '4' 40 4 14101919: 40-'4 I I rt'' rf: 2 4 Or 1 1 IT 1 itorel 1 "I 4 '444101 efil I (1' 3 4 49 4bbS ti pe 41-'7" l'-il '''''Vi---'004efortee4" -1-4400-- i'111': 7'1'7' I Ilk ''')'" i 4r10-- A3okv '4 ri9- ---ir iii3O4 tit' 34 'itif'4t1k 111 ep isr4c tilt' p- 4144" A I CO i fr 64 I 1-li 1 444 -As (7 4 -4- 4 4itl 00 '4t 944'4'4 i4tifiik '144t IModern Pool Sun Deck txtellent Cuisine and Service Entertainment by Cruise Director and Staff Time tor sightseeing bargain shopping in all porta SHIP AS YOUR HOTEL ALL THE WAY ig SWIMMING POOL SuN DECK I Iil Pick your Port 1 Pick your Dot 'LA-rip It vice I Enlertatement int in all port: Lir Port" 'Jr Dot 'IL" I TO GO ON A on 70 between Raleigh and Durham Jones Lake Park (For Negroes) South Carolina SU5ITER NATIONAL FOREST Chatooga 18 miles Northwest of Walhalla on State Highway 107 Lick Fork Lake 10 miles Southwest of Edgefield via State Highways 23 and 230 Molly's Rock 11 miles Northeast of Newberry via State Highway 19 and Forest Service Road Parsons Mountain Lake Off State Highway 28 6 miles South of Abbeville Yellow Branch 5 miles Northwest of Walhalla on State Highway 28 FRANCIS MARION NATIONAL FOREST Huger 15 miles Southeast of Moncks Corner on State Highway 402 STATE PARKS Aiken off State Highway 215 18 miles East of Aiken Barnwell 7 miles North of Barnwell on State Highway 3 Cheraw 5 miles South of Cheraw on I Chester 3 miles Southwest of Chester on State Highway 72 Colleton 12 miles North of Walterboro on 15 Croft State Park 5 miles -War DESERT INN "THE BEST IN LATIONA BEACH" Ocean front luxury resort motel 100 air-cond swimming pool efficiencies rooms Ty informal inment golf tennis dining dancing FREI breakfast "in bed" AAA C12-04S7 904 North Atlantic Ave Daytona Beach IDEA! 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KINGSTON end Sails Saturday ii 4 PM lEASTERNOHIPPINGICPRPORATION Gen Ageng tp2 Vero AytN PNIT Tel Shang 64372 01 se Your Irsvitl Age 9 -DAY HAVANA Tied NASSAIPJ AN- zpelfmtS1 50 THANKSGIVING DAY CRUISE Saiis Satardoy Nov 22 4 PM TsvOsiahts and anis day in Havana Ono day in Nassau PORT ANTONIO lemon ISAVANAMbo lip Descripoivit oolden see on rooposto North Carolina BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY Doughton Park on Parkway 47 miles Northeast of Blowing Rock Crabtree Meadows on Park way near Little Switzerland Balsam Mountain Campground on Parkway extension at Soo Gap from 19 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Deep Creek Campground miles North of Bryson City Smokemont 7 miles North of Cherokee on 441 NANTAHALA NATIONAL FOREST Grape Creek on Lake Hiwassee 8 miles Northwest of Murphy Van Hook Galde and Cliffside 4 miles Northwest of Highlands on Cot Wayah Crest 14 miles West of Franklin ia 64 and Wayah Road White Oak On gravel road 2 miles off 434 14 miles West of Franklin White Pines On Forest Road five miles off 129 North of Robbinsville On Lake Santeetlah PISGAII NATIONAL FOREST Big Ivy Off State Highway 197 6 miles east of Barnardsvine Carolina Hemlock on State Highway 80 7 miles North of Micaville Frying Pan Gap On IL i 276 13 miles North of the town of Pisgah Forest North Mills River Off State Highway 280 8 miles north- I I Hendersonville As a group they are like their Ilenryi parent in form (though that varies) but they are described as being taller with stiff sterns and large flowers The flowers were not large and the stems were neither tall nor stiff but I did not mind that and I like the delicate tints of yellow and orange especially one that is the color of strong lemonade Besides they are long in blooms The first flower opened the second day of July just before Henryi and they lasted until the end of the month MRS LEE CORRELL says that she has good success with lilies in Maxton She plants them in part shade mulches With Fountain In The reds and yellows of zinnias and marigolds to make hot July look hotter Even the petunias have a jaded leggy look and must be sheared to bring them back to their spring-like beauty THE BEST PLANT I know which never blinks an eye no matter how hot or dry it is in July and August is periwinkle A border of white periwinkle back of a border of blue and white petunias makes a cool and restful picture and should be grown more widely just because it never loses its shiny splendor We can still sow seeds and get a minimum of blooms before frost Snow-on-the-mountain a dusty miller should be used in the back of a border for coolness and beauty also Clusters here and there add delightful accents to a long border End keep it from looking jaded when days become hot and dry IN MI- OWN GARDEN my greatest delight has been two lilies the Gold Band lilies of Japan I remembered them in my mother's garden and was delighted when I saw these bulbs on a flower counter in one of our department stores last fall I planted them In late No vember and they began blooming in mid-July and bloomed over a five-week period Two to three huge white blooms with gold bands down each petal opened each day and lasted a week on the stalk or in the house when cut They were gorgeous and very fragrant ELIZABETH WAY Looks Up them heavily with manure in the fall and in summer gives them a sprinkling of a commercial fertilizer that contains extra potash She says that Golden Clarion is as easily grown as the olympic hybrids She was delighted with the Australian lily Milan Wal lace This is another bat bloomed poorly for me but (observer I Hunt Garden Blooms were open wide and slightly curved ten to each stalk Gardeners have found that dwarf crape myrtle will make long lasttng beauty spots in the summer border It grows to as much as three feet tall and bears many fine clusters of blooms The blue and white are especially beautiful in summer since so many other flowers run to reds and yellows The blue one is called "Blue Midget" It is a very striking little shrub but not quite what I like to call me it looks more like lavender-pink but I believe if we would use some acid fertilizer when they first come into bloom they would develop more blue color We might try three ounces of aluminum sulphate to a gallon of water and give them a drink daily for several weeks MRS WILLIAM HUNT 3212 Pinehurst Place (off Selwyn Ave) has discovered what color will do to a green garden They have an ideal inclosed back yard which slopes downward with steps under an arch of roses leading to the lower section where we found her color plot one of outstanding beauty Since there are many trees i in this garden with tall hedges of greenery all the say around there is so much shade that they almost despaired of having any color except for flowering shrubs and trees of early spring There just wasn't a place to plant perennials and annuals! 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FALL VACATION B0111111Z111 7 p- 3 zr-- zt- 2mqu 'A i '71- --7aic 417t I gtk 10- V' 'i--4-1 1- 1 t1---- 1-11 ev- A li I 11 --)11 100 0 WONDAGRASS NURSERIES rk ftei evr0 uulkAa DCDIAIIIIA enn 1VONDAGRASS NURSERIES Fast BERMUDA SOD growing Hybrid west of Ahatan Off State Highway I 191 12 miles southwest of Asheville lver Mine Off 2510 just east of Hot Springs ony Fork On State High1 way 112 18 miles southwest of Asheville hit Pine Off 276 4 Powhatan Off State Highway 191 12 miles southwest of Asheville Silver Mine Off 25 just east of Hot Springs Stony Fork On State Highway 112 18 miles southwest of Asheville White Pine Off 276 k4 Produces a beautiful solid turf in I to 8 weeks 1 sq foot of WONDAGRASS sod covers 50 sq feet in to weeks Put in as sprigs Plugs or in trenches crown In Charlotte for five years MS Wodowood Dr No Moil By MRS HUFFMAN Homes are bought and new families move in every day Too many think only of the house and its possibilities giving no thought whatever to the size and condition of the grounds When they finally get around to it after the last picture Is hung and the last cup in its rack they go out and give it one look The task is too great I just cannot tackle it" Others do see its possibilities Bring in a man with a plow Turn up the entire place sow lawns front and back place foundation shrubs and line shrubs and finally get around to the delightful task of making a perennial border Families like this lose no time in transforming a house Into a home a home is not a home until it is planted SHADE is our first thought in planning roun Privacy comes next Then a terrace for out-door living Children's play area the service yard which should be out of view when possible a kitchen garden where sprigs of mint can easily be picked for tea lavender for fragrance sage for meats etc and finally there should be color This brings us to color In the August garden In early spring the whole place comes alive with the glory of daffodils tulips flowering trees pansies alyssum etc June brings roses larkspur hollyhocks feverfew and lilacs which do their best to hang on into July but by its end they have curled up and died away and our borders take on a woebegone expression with mostly 100 AIR CONDITIONED 14 Pitdg t4tWINCILAtt 1 totO 111V SPECIAL FALL CRUISE From NORFOLK VA To BERMUDA On the MVAROSA SKY 20000 Ton TransAttantic Liner SAILING OCTOBER 19 5-DAYS s135o 0 1 I I I I I I I I I 1 WORLD CAROLINA 701 South Tryon FIZ Largest AAA Motor Please send me folder NAME ADDRESS CITY in sang' nt1 al 6 miles North of Brevard CAPE IIATTERAS NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREA Cape Point 53 miles Southeast of Manteo near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Oregon Inlet 13 miles Southeast of Manteo on North shore of Oregon Inlet Pea Island 15 miles' Southeast of Manteo on South shore of Oregon Inlet STATE PARKS Hanging Rock Off State Highway 8 32 miles north of Winston-Salem Mount Mitchell-33 miles northeast of Asheville 5 miles off Blue Ridge Parkway via State Highway 120 Cliff of the Neuse 14 miles Southeast of Goldsboro on State Highway Morrow Nlountain 7 miles Northeast of Albemarle off State Highway 740 Wm Umstead State Notafr 1" 1 1 bate Radar ((mopped for year Safety i Modern ShipSwimming Pool Sun Deck Excellent Cuisine and Service Entertainment by Cruise Director mid Stiff Time for sightseeing bargain shopping in all ports iSWIMMING POOL I SUN DECK ft 0 0 EtilA SHlP AS YOUR HOTEL ALL THE WAY AMMO At: 114NU 1 it i -It ir ti Le'7Varlir SSW WIWI'? al 3234010t 71111111POINSW0001114 IP 1010001011M1P1111 111611 1 Adkofr CHARLESTONASCT 'r'ksrIACKSONVILL IF a CHARLESTONALCI 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 TRAVEL SERVICE MOTOR CLUB 6-7511 Charlotte Club in the South on Arose Sky fall cruise 6-DAY CRUISE to 7-DAY CRUISE to HAVANA omCNASSAH BERMUDA from $110 Soh SEPT 27th kern s125 sails OCT ilth Plows write for factors Owing tmplet information nip ISH I OPN ICOR OR ATIONJA91 Agekt ICiti4littrkliotitT thlIrTiolk t-SiertbIlWAN frisV4C1 Opeot Novittetwo Mt 8 om to do pod SegiOltvoliKtit RAVENALTRAVEljtf2e Ali Agent loc-Plor'Catohite SP Breed' tomet therloitott SoNDitipt 4 I fr 111-1Z Eaman is En It STATE 4 i 1 4.