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Show Wilderness Converted to Exotic CoTde MOBILE, ALA. - Once a tropical tropi-cal wilderness of magnolias, moss-festooned moss-festooned oaks, bays and pines the famous Bellingrath gardens,' 20 miles south of Mobile on the 'isle Aux-Oies (Fowl) river, today rank as one of the most popular meccas for flower lovers. The gardens, started start-ed as a hobby, draw as many as 10 000 persons in a single weekend Stately live oaks which have stood for 500 years and 100-year-old azalea rmwiwn ., I m bushes are among the outstanding of nS 0i the gardens' Thousands pant V231633' treeS' sh". P an ts and vines have been trans Planted in Bellingrath gardens fxom all parts of the country J ,tJhtmidst of aU th beauty is e, suggestive L Ush Renaissance period and handsomely built of hand pressed ante-bellum bricks and a ditional iron-lace grill work. |