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Fall 2015 Newsletter
AtlantaHistoryCenter.com/CherokeeGardenLibrary s 404.814.4046
130 West Paces Ferry Road s Atlanta, Georgia 30305
Endowment Campaign Surpasses
Founded by the
Cherokee Garden
Club in 1975
Anne Coppedge Carr
(1917-2005)
Founding President
Kinsey Appleby Harper
President
Staci L. Catron
Director
Board of Trustees
Maysie Spalding Beeson
Adelaide Ward Burton
Mary Johnson Calhoun
J. Cannon Carr, Jr.
Robin Wicker Croft
Katharine Ellis Elsas
John Ewing
Kinsey Appleby Harper
Chris Hastings
Ozzie Johnson
Kathryn McCain Lee
Missy Means Madden
A. Wright Marshall IV
F. Raymond McIntyre III
Audrey Hill McMenamy
Carter Heyward Morris
Caye Johnson Oglesby
Nancy Roberts Patterson
Teed McConnell Poe
Jane Douglas Reynolds
Claire McCants Schwahn
Alex Smith
William T. Smith
Margaret Dykes Stickney
Frank Troutman, Jr.
Melissa Cole Tufts
Spencer Tunnell II
Joy Rayburn Vannerson
Marsha Pirkle Webb
Jane Robinson Whitaker
Helen Howell Wray
Zach Young
$2.5 Million Goal
to Extend the Garden Library’s
Services to Future Generations
The combined contributions of 150 individuals and organizations are serving as a very special 40th
birthday present for the Cherokee Garden Library. Each gift, ranging from $30 to $300,000, helped
surpass the initial $2.5 million goal set at the time the Garden Library merged with the Atlanta History
Center in 2005.
According to Atlanta History Center President and CEO Sheffield Hale, “Reaching the endowment
campaign goal is very significant, not only for the financial security it represents but as a testament to
the Garden Library’s strong leadership spanning several generations. The Cherokee Garden Library
is a significant asset for the Atlanta History Center. It’s recognized around the world as a unique and
invaluable repository of books, catalogs, drawings, photographs, and ephemera pertaining to gardening
and landscape design in the Southeast region of the United States.”
Fund Structured for Continued Growth
in General or Directed Contributions
as well as Planned Giving
Building on this success, the Garden
Library will continue to add to the
endowment in order to sustain growth
and insure future needs. The vision for
the Endowment Fund, therefore, is to
continue encouraging contributions
that grow the fund and position the
Garden Library to serve a broader
community, expanding in ways that
keep it relevant to future generations.
The fund also serves to buffer the
Garden Library against potential
financial downturns.
Contributions to the Endowment Fund
can be made to the general fund or to
funds designated to support specific
services. The Cherokee Rose Society
provides for planned giving as another
important component of this ongoing
campaign. Planned giving currently
includes $400,000 in pledges by
friends who include the Garden
Library endowment in their wills.
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Staci L. Catron, Director and Editor • Jo Ann McCracken-Redding, Associate Editor • Jennie Oldfield, Associate Editor
The following endowment funds
were established by donors to honor
members of our community and
improve the Garden Library’s offerings
that are central to its mission:
• Anne Coppedge Carr Research
and Director’s Fund provides
for the Garden Library staff
salaries, general operating
needs, and funds student intern
research projects in the fields
of gardening, landscape design,
garden history, horticulture,
floral design, botanical art,
cultural landscapes, natural
landscapes, and plant ecology.
• Louise Staton Gunn
Conservation Fund sustains
the Cherokee Garden Library’s
ongoing program to conserve
historic items so they are accessible
for research or pleasure.
• Ashley Wright McIntyre
Education and Programming
Fund supports occasional lectures
and programs identified as the
Ashley Wright McIntyre Series.
• Carter Heyward Morris
Acquisitions Fund contributes
to the continual growth of the
Garden Library collection with
the specific focus on documenting
the Southeastern region of the
United States.
Endowment and Annual
Funds Work Together
As a component of the Atlanta History
Center, Cherokee Garden Library
endowment funds are managed as
part of the whole Atlanta History
Center endowment. The investment
committee of the Board of Trustees
manages the funds with eyes on
preservation of capital, growth, and
downside risk.
The spending policy determined by
leadership makes an annual payout
from the Endowment Fund to help
meet the needs of each of the core
areas of the Garden Library’s services.
Garden Library Board Development
Chair Zach Young explains, “For the
endowment to work for the very best
possible Garden Library, annual giving
also must remain strong. Without an
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Annual Fund that currently provides
approximately $120,000 each year to
support existing levels of service, our
new endowment dollars will not generate
the momentum and added value that all
who love the library want to see.”
Fundraising Process
Strengthens the Garden
Library Community
The Endowment Fund began as a
savings account that accrued from
1975 to 2004 thanks to sound fiscal
management, numerous fundraisers
and generous supporters. When the
Garden Library merged with the Atlanta
History Center in early 2005, the
savings became an endowment fund
to be managed within the History
Center’s endowment, and an initial
$2.5 Million goal for the fund was set.
The Garden Library leadership planned
to launch an endowment campaign
during the 2007/2008 fiscal year but
delayed the initiative due to the Great
Recession. In 2013, a feasibility study
determined the time was right for the
Cherokee Garden Library to conduct
a campaign, and it was officially
launched in April 2013 at “The Legends
of the Library” luncheon honoring key
advocates of the Garden Library.
The Endowment Steering Committee
formed to reach the goal and Carter
Morris chaired the group, describing
her role as “a convener of leaders.”
She explains, “Several in our group
had experience in fundraising, but as
a whole, we were new to the process
and had to learn the art of asking.
With some coaching, we learned to be
more comfortable presenting the case
and asking others to make significant
contributions to an organization
we believe in and are personally
committed to support.”
What the Garden Library
Offers Us and Future
Generations
“The Garden Library is a popular
place for conducting research or
simply indulging in a passion for our
horticultural heritage. It attracts Girl
Scouts to post-doctoral academics and
everyone in between,” explains Cherokee
Garden Library Director Staci Catron.
“One of the great things about studying
gardening and the land is that it heals
our bodies and our hearts as well as
our minds and souls,” says Catron.
“This is what we hope the Cherokee
Garden Library will do for generations
to come. Thanks to the Endowment
Fund, we can.”
Success Driven By
the Extraordinary
Commitment of
Campaign Leaders
Endowment
Steering Committee
Carter Morris, Chair
Boyce Ansley
Staci Catron
Kinsey Harper
Libby Prickett
Claire Schwahn
Zach Young
Endowment Campaign
Advisory Group
Duncan Beard
Mary Wayne Dixon
George Lanier
Raymond McIntyre
Frank Troutman
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CARTER HEYWARD MORRIS
ACQUISITIONS FUND ESTABLISHED
By Staci Catron, Cherokee Garden Library Director
celebrating her steadfast commitment
to the Cherokee Garden Library. The
fund also honors her insatiable desire to
learn, her fondness of gardening, and
her deep respect for books and other
records that document Southern garden
history and the people who have shaped
the land.
Background
Carter Morris, Cherokee Garden Library
Past President. Photograph courtesy of
Rosa Sumter.
Due to the generosity of an anonymous
donor and as part of the Cherokee
Garden Library Endowment, The Carter
Heyward Morris Acquisitions Fund
has been established to honor Carter
Heyward Morris’s significant role
in the library’s development and to
recognize the heart and soul of the
library – its remarkable collection.
The library serves thousands of
researchers each year, sharing the
knowledge of over 400 years of
gardening literature and the love of
gardening and the natural world with
the community. This fund, within
the Garden Library endowment, is
intended to provide for the Cherokee
Garden Library’s ongoing acquisitions
program so that more books and
historical documents are available
to the public for research or pleasure.
Carter first helped the library when
she served as Cherokee Garden Club
President from 1999 to 2001. She
developed a deeper appreciation and
love of the library and its outstanding
treasures while serving as its Board
President from 2008 to 2011. A
generous, anonymous donor named the
Acquisitions Fund in honor of Carter,
In 1973, as chair of the Cherokee Garden
Club Project-finding Committee, Anne
Coppedge Carr enlisted friends to join
her on a visit to Cheekwood, an estate
in Nashville, Tennessee, where they
discovered a small garden library. After
that visit, Carr inspired the Garden
Club to start a new project in Atlanta,
envisioning what became a learning
environment dedicated to botanical and
horticultural study.
The Cherokee Garden Club opened the
Cherokee Garden Library in the spring
of 1975. Starting with a few hundred
volumes, the Cherokee Garden Library
is now the premier repository of historic
and contemporary books and objects
related to gardening and horticulture
in the Southeastern United States. The
library contains over 30,000 items
dating from 1586 and the present.
The Cherokee Garden Library is a
growing collection, always seeking to
acquire rare and contemporary volumes
and other documents pertaining to
gardening, landscape design, and other
study areas that focus on documenting
the Southeast. Collecting priorities
include gardening in the metropolitan
Atlanta area, the broader geographical
regions of Georgia, the Southeast, the
broader geographical regions of the
United States and, finally, root sources,
including Europe and Asia, for influences
in American gardening.
Two Acquisition Avenues:
Donations and Purchases
The Cherokee Garden Library acquires
materials through donations as well as
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purchases. The Director continuously
works with gardeners, landscape
architects, garden clubs, horticultural
societies, and others to receive
contributions of materials to build
the collection. Decisions regarding
donations to the library are managed
through the Atlanta History Center’s
Collection Development Committee
of which the Garden Library Director
is a member, and follow the History
Center’s board-approved Collection
Management Policy.
Decisions regarding books or other
materials purchased for the library
collection are made through the
Cherokee Garden Library Acquisitions
Committee, comprised of eighteen
members, including the Garden Library
Director, Atlanta History Center Vice
President of Research Services, Garden
Library Board President, Committee
Chair, and knowledgeable members of
the historic landscape and gardening
communities. The committee meets at
least three times per year.
A budget for acquiring materials is
proposed annually by the Acquisitions
Committee in conjunction with the
Executive Committee and approved by
both the Garden Library and Atlanta
History Center Board of Trustees. The
Acquisitions Committee also sets forth
discretionary funds from the annual
acquisitions budget for the Director to
purchase books throughout the year.
When special books or materials
become available, the Director works
with members of the Acquisitions
Committee to seek funds to underwrite
a special purchase.
Core Collections
The Cherokee Garden Library holds
many significant, rare, and unique
collections. In 1977, with the
encouragement and aid of the Cherokee
Garden Club and a major grant from
the Mills B. Lane Foundation, the
library acquired the Elisabeth Woodburn
Collection (1634-1950), which passes
along the roots of knowledge of
American horticulture and gardening
through the pages of over 3,000 historic
volumes. Elisabeth Woodburn, a
renowned antiquarian garden book
dealer from Hopewell, New Jersey,
was seeking a home for her collection
where it would be well maintained
and used by the public. After turning
down many agencies, including the
Smithsonian Institution, she agreed
to sell the collection to the Cherokee
Garden Library.
In 1989, the Cherokee Garden Library
purchased the personal library of
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985), a
North Carolina gardener and writer,
who was named one of the twenty-five
greatest gardeners in the world by
Horticulture Magazine. Containing
more than 500 volumes, the Elizabeth
Lawrence Collection (1771-1983)
includes many important English and
American gardening volumes, such
as those by Gertrude Jekyll, Jane
Loudon, and Vita Sackville-West.
Many of the volumes contain margin
notes written by Lawrence as well as
correspondence from other gardeners
and friends.
The depth and quality of the
Cherokee Garden Library’s holdings
were enhanced in 1994 with the
establishment of the Virginia Hand
Callaway Collection (1586-2001) as
a loan from the Ida Cason Callaway
Foundation. With over 1,000 volumes,
this collection contains the rare works
of William Bartram, John Gerard,
Francis Bacon, and André Michaux,
as well as important antebellum
volumes written for Southern
gardening and agriculture. In August
2005, the Foundation generously
made a gift of this important collection
to the library.
The Cherokee Garden Library is also
home to the records of over onehundred garden clubs in Georgia and
The Garden Club of Georgia’s Historic
Landscape Initiative, documenting over
180 historic gardens and landscapes
throughout Georgia. The library
contains the collections of a number of
significant Georgia landscape architects
and designers, including Harry J.
Baldwin, Norman C. Butts, James R.
Cothran, Edward L. Daugherty, Edith
Henderson, Julia Orme Martin, William
L. Monroe Sr., and William C. Pauley.
The Cherokee Garden Library is also
the official repository of the American
Daffodil Society, American Dahlia
Society, Georgia Botanical Society,
Southern Garden History Society,
and Southern Nursery Association. The
library holds an extensive gardening
periodical collection dating from
the 1830s to the present as well as
thousands of nursery and seed catalogs
dating from the 1820s to today. Of
particular note are the records of
Hastings Seed Company of Atlanta
(1894-1993) and Fruitland Nurseries of
Augusta (1828-1952), now home to the
Augusta National Golf Club.
Accessibility and Serving
the Community
The Cherokee Garden Library serves
the Atlanta History Center’s garden
curators, historians, and other staff
research needs, as well as the general
public, including students, gardeners,
horticulturists, academic and public
historians, and landscape designers.
The library is also available to nonprofit
institutions and commercial firms.
The library is free and open to the
public at the Kenan Research Center,
Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or other days by
appointment. The library overlooks
the Frank A. Smith Memorial
Rhododendron Garden, providing
inspiration for researchers. Atlanta
History Center’s Goizueta Garden
curators use the resources in the library
to interpret and preserve the thirtythree-acres of gardens and grounds at
the Atlanta History Center, including
displays and programs for visitors.
Information regarding the library can
be found at AtlantaHistoryCenter.
com/CherokeeGardenLibrary.
The library staff encourages public
access to the collection, supports
instruction in its extensive scholarly
resources, and offers a space for
concentrated study and interdisciplinary
academic collaboration. Working with
the University of Georgia’s College of
Environment and Design, Georgia State
University’s Heritage Preservation
Department, and other colleges and
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universities throughout the Southeast,
the Cherokee Garden Library is highly
regarded in the academic community.
The library’s resources are promoted
via university department listserves to
faculty and students, through dozens of
publications by Garden Library staff, as
well as the many books and articles by
various authors that have been written
using the collection and research
facilities. Researchers also learn about
the library through its many partners,
including the Council on Botanical
and Horticultural Libraries, Cultural
Landscape Foundation, Garden Club
of America, Garden Club of Georgia,
Historic Preservation Division of
the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, National Park Service,
Southern Garden History Society, and
the State Botanical Garden of Georgia.
Online searches in the extensive
collection may be conducted using
Terminus, the Kenan Research Center
online catalog. The Garden Library
Director supports researchers from
around the world by answering
questions, offering research, and
providing copies of book excerpts for
a fee. From 2004 to 2012, research
requests more than doubled and in
2014 more than 8,500 researchers
were served.
Accessibility to the public is an integral
component of the library’s service
to the community. Materials are
constantly purchased and donated
to the Cherokee Garden Library to
enhance its collection and to keep the
library relevant to researcher’s needs in
the community.
Future Outreach through
Digital Projects
Although technology does not replace
the enjoyment of research and study in
the tangible and often artistic materials
in the library, the growth of and interest
in the collection has prompted the
Cherokee Garden Library to develop
plans to digitize unique and invaluable
holdings in the collection, offering
greater accessibility to the public.
The Carter Heyward Morris
Acquisitions Fund brings new
opportunities for the library to reach
new audiences by funding projects to
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digitize and preserve photographs,
postcards, seed catalogs, and
manuscripts, specifically relating to
gardens in the South. These will be
accessible to the public via Album, the
online digital collection of over 16,000
photographs of the Kenan Research
Center. Opportunities for future online
exhibitions are also possible future
opportunities for interpretation and
access to the collection.
The Carter Heyward Morris Acquisitions
Fund is essential to growing the
Cherokee Garden Library collection
and inspiring our community about the
value of gardens and garden literature to
our world. A garden, much like a library,
is a place where our imagination takes
root and thrives.
SUPPORTING THE ENDOWMENT FUND
To make a gift to any of the funds described above, please make your check payable to “Cherokee Garden Library” and
send with a note sharing which fund you have selected (Carr Fund, Gunn Fund, McIntyre Fund, or Morris Fund of the
Endowment) to Cherokee Garden Library, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta,
GA 30305. Every gift in any amount will make a tremendous difference in the life of the Cherokee Garden Library. Your gift
may be made in honor or in memory of a beloved family member or friend. Acknowledgements will be sent promptly. If you
have any questions, please call Garden Library Director Staci Catron at 404.814.4046. You may also make your gift online at
AtlantaHistoryCenter.com/CherokeeGardenLibrary and call Staci to share the specifics regarding your donation.
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GIFTS TO THE CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND
Donors who gave between January 1, 2014 and October 20, 2015. The Cherokee Garden Library thanks you for your generosity.
The Garden Library is working towards the conclusion of the $2.5 Million Endowment Campaign. Please help us ensure the future
of the Garden Library by sending a check to Cherokee Garden Library, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW,
Atlanta, Georgia 30305 or calling Staci at 404.814.4046.
ANNE COPPEDGE CARR RESEARCH AND DIRECTOR’S FUND
All gifts were made in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr and the other individuals listed below.
Bonnie and Mel Adler
Mrs. Virginia Almand
Mrs. William B. Astrop
Ms. Merrily C. Baird,
in honor of Ms. Marie De George
Ms. Marcia D. Bansley
Ellen and Duncan Beard
The George Brown Trust Fund of Atlanta
Adelaide and Dal Burton
Alice and Jim Carr,
in memory of Mrs. Margaret Bowden
Alice and Jim Carr,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Alice and Jim Carr,
in memory of Millie Marie Mathis Gibson
Le and Beauchamp Carr,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Le and Beauchamp Carr,
in memory of Anne Carr, Betty Nunnally,
Barbara Coppedge, and Stephanie Howell
Le and Beauchamp Carr,
in memory of Millie Marie Mathis Gibson
Anne Cox Chambers Foundation,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Conrad
Penny and John Coppedge,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Robin and Stockton Croft
The Roy and Janet Dorsey Foundation,
in memory of Janet Appleby Dorsey
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dreyer
Lee and Mike Dunn
Katharine Ellis Elsas
Katharine and John Elsas
Mr. John Ewing
Mrs. Joyce E. Ferris,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Mr. Ian J. W. Firth
Peggy and Rawson Foreman,
in memory of Mary Shedden Foreman
A Friend of the Garden Library
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gray
Corinne “Kinsey” Appleby Harper
Kinsey and Gordon Harper
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. Hoffman
Maudie Martin Huff and Julia Martin McClelland,
in memory of Julia Orme Martin
Ms. Randy Jones,
in honor of Mrs. Harry T. Jones Jr.
and in memory of Mr. Harry T. Jones Jr.
Sarah Kenan Kennedy,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Ione and John Lee
Kathy and Richard Lee
Lynn and David Lowance,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
The Arthur and Lindee Lucas Foundation
Nancy and Jerry Lynn,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Trudy and Bert Madden
The Albert and Nan Gray Monk Foundation
Tracy Gray Monk
The Sara Giles Moore Foundation
Carter and Hampton Morris,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Mary Reynolds Morrison,
in honor of Howard Jackson Morrison III and
Mary Morrison Moore
Mrs. Teed M. Poe,
in memory of Frances Oglesby Williamson
Mrs. Lula P. Post
Elizabeth King Prickett
Elizabeth King Prickett,
in honor of the Endowment Stewardship Committee
Mr. Ernie Prickett, in honor of Libby Prickett
Jane Douglas Reynolds
The Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation –
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord Jr.,
in honor of Talela Newsom Carr
The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation
Claire and Frank Schwahn
Margaret and Charlie Shufeldt
Mrs. Esther M. Stokes
Mrs. Margaretta Taylor,
in memory of Anne Coppedge Carr
Susan and Frank Troutman
Ms. Sara L. Van Beck
Mrs. Joy Vannerson
Jane and Jim Wells,
in honor of Libby Prickett
Jane and Bill Whitaker
Helen and Chris Wray,
in memory of Stephanie Dunham Howell
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ANNE COPPEDGE CARR RESEARCH AND DIRECTOR’S FUND (cont.)
Helen Howell Wray and Mr. Henry L. Howell,
in memory of Stephanie Howell
Studie and Zach Young
LOUISE STATON GUNN CONSERVATION FUND
All gifts were made in honor of Louise Staton Gunn.
Anonymous
Mary Anne Spalding Beeson
Mrs. Anne G. Catron
Mrs. Hugh Chapman
Betty Masters Edge
Mrs. Grace Gilchrist
Louise Staton Gunn
Mr. Robert H. Gunn Jr.
Amy and Chris Hastings
Carter and Hampton Morris
Ms. Lainey Papageorge and Mr. David Hudson
Mrs. Eleanor H. Ridley
ASHLEY WRIGHT McINTYRE EDUCATION AND PROGRAMMING FUND
All gifts were made in memory of Ashley Wright McIntyre and in honor of and in memory of the other individuals listed below.
Mrs. William B. Astrop
Mr. and Mrs. William Benedict Jr.,
in honor of Sydney Healey*
Ms. D. Claire Blackwell
Bright Wings Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Craig B. Cairney
Nancy and Dan Carithers
Colonial Hill Foundation
Susan and Ed Croft
Lisa Loudermilk deGolian
Ms. Marion Hall
Linda and Hank Harris
Ann Pegram Howington,
in memory of Frances Oglesby Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Huff,
in memory of Julia Orme Martin
Ms. Katy McArthur
Mr. and Mrs. John S. McClelland, Jr.
Mr. Raymond McIntyre and Family
Mr. Marc Mosley,
in honor of Mr. Ryan Gainey
Mrs. Genevieve C. Pearson
RBC – Royal Bank of Canada
Deedee and Marion Stafford
Maggie and John Staton
Margaret Dykes Stickney
Cathy and Ken Thrasher
Mrs. Laura S. Wallace
CARTER HEYWARD MORRIS ACQUISITIONS FUND
All gifts were made in honor of Carter Heyward Morris.
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CHEROKEE ROSE SOCIETY MEMBERS
The Cherokee Rose Society of the Franklin Miller Garrett Society celebrates those honored donors who
have chosen to make a planned gift to the Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center.
Louise Richardson Allen* Boyce L. Ansley Teri Rhodes Bond
Staci L. Catron Beverly B. Coker
Mary Palmer Dargan
Mary Wayne Dixon
William W. Dixon
Ryan Gainey Robert Hall Gunn, Jr.
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Patricia Rand Hargrett Corinne “Kinsey” Appleby Harper
James H. Landon
Robert Lee Mays
Carter H. Morris
W. Hampton Morris
Mary B. Norwood
Betty Yopp Nunnally* Elizabeth King Prickett
*deceased
Cherokee Garden Library Program
The Lee Bros.
Southern Uncovered:
An Evening with the Lee Bros.
with Special Host Angie Mosier
Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 7:30 pm
Siblings Matt and Ted Lee grew up and learned to cook
in Charleston, South Carolina, in a townhouse on the
city’s fabled Rainbow Row. When they left to attend
colleges in the Northeast, they so missed the foods of
their hometown that they founded The Lee Bros. Boiled
Peanuts Catalogue, a mail-order catalogue for Southern
staples like grits, pickled okra, and, of course, boiled
peanuts. When an editor of a travel magazine asked them
to write a story about road-tripping their home state in
search of great food, they embarked on a second career as
food journalists and cookbook authors.
Since 2000, they have written hundreds of food, wine, and
travel features for magazines and newspapers, including
The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Martha Stewart
Living, Southern Living, Saveur, Bon Appetit, and Food
& Wine. Their three cookbooks, The Lee Bros. Southern
Cookbook (2007), The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern
(2009), and The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen (2013)
have, combined, won six James Beard and IACP Awards,
and they are widely credited with bringing a richer
understanding of Southern cooking into the mainstream.
They were on-air commentators for all seven seasons of
The Cooking Channel’s hit series Unique Eats, and they
are currently hosts and executive producers of Southern
Uncovered with The Lee Bros. on Ovation. Matt, his wife
Gia, and their three sons live in Charleston, SC. Ted lives
with his wife, artist E.V. Day, in Brooklyn, NY.
The Lee Bros. Photograph by Ben Fink.
Please save the date of Tuesday, April 12, 2016, for
this special program with The Lee Bros. with special
guest host Angie Mosier, Atlanta freelance writer, stylist,
photographer, and cook (and Atlanta History Center
Board member!).
Sponsorships of this special evening are available.
Please contact Staci Catron at 404.814.4046 or
[email protected] or reach out to Event
Co-Chairs, Mary Calhoun and Wright Marshall.
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Curious Mister Catesby
and the Elegant Mister Abbot:
The
Early Naturalists in Georgia, 1722-1840
By Michael Rose, Atlanta History Center Executive Vice President
Writing of the mountain laurel,
common throughout North Georgia,
Catesby stated:
“As all plants have their
peculiar Beauties, ‘tis
difficult to assign to any
one an Elegance excelling
all others, yet considering
the curious Structure of
the Flower, and beautiful
Appearance of this whole
Plant; I know of no Shrub
that has a better Claim to it.”
Between 1722 and 1840, two British
naturalists documented the flowers,
insects, birds, and animals of the
still-unknown colony and developing
state. Mark Catesby – the Curious
one – travelled through the region
(Georgia actually did not yet exist)
and went on to publish the first
natural history of North America.
John Abbot – the Elegant one – drew
watercolors of moths, butterflies,
birds, and bugs, and made a living at
it. This exhibition contains prints and
original works as well as maps that
record the changing shape of Georgia
over the same time period.
The James G. Kenan Research Center
offers an extensive treasure of rare
and original textual and visual
records that document the history
of the city of Atlanta from the time
the tiny railroad outpost known as
Terminus was established in the north
Georgia wilderness in 1837. Rarer
still is documentation of the natural
environment of the region prior to the
arrival of white settlers. To supplement
our holdings in this earlier time period,
the Research Center recently acquired
Champaedaphne foliis Tini …
[Mountain Laurel with Pitch Apple]
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Hand-colored copperplate engraving
Plate 98, Volume II
Watermark on hand-laid paper: IHS / I. VILLEDARY
First edition, ca.1743
Gift of the Ivy Garden Club, Cherokee Garden Library Collection
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eight beautiful and rare nature prints
by English explorer, naturalist, and
artist Mark Catesby.
Between 1722 and 1726, Catesby
travelled throughout South Carolina
and parts of Georgia, including the
Blue Ridge Mountains, and created
sketches and paintings of species of
plants, insects, and birds never seen
in his native England. For nearly two
decades thereafter, Catesby worked on
the design and printing of The Natural
History of Carolina, Florida, and the
Bahama Islands, a brilliant, threevolume set of more than 220 handcolored etchings depicting the natural
beauty of Britain’s American colonies.
What stands out among all the species
of plants and animals featured in
Natural History are the bird prints
he created; 109 in all, including five
recently acquired. For his expertise
and artistry on the subject, Catesby has
been called the “Father of American
Ornithology,” predating John James
Audubon by nearly one hundred years.
Catesby’s bird prints featured in the
new exhibition highlight birds of
migration, such as the summer red bird
as well as the yellow-throated warbler
that inhabits the Georgia coast to breed
during the spring and summer months.
Catesby’s prints and observations serve
as a valuable tool in understanding the
evolution of the natural environment
of Georgia. The Catesby bird prints
were acquired through a bequest of
Harvey M. Smith Jr. and join four
prints acquired as part of the extensive
decorative arts collection of Philip
Trammell Shutze.
Two outstanding prints obtained as part
of the recent acquisition are a generous
donation from the Ivy Garden Club to
benefit the Cherokee Garden Library.
The botanical print of the “Mountain
Laurel” and the spectacular engraving of
the “Flying Squirrel” are gifts of the Ivy
Garden Club in observance of the club’s
fiftieth anniversary.
These magnificent prints will be
featured alongside other examples
from Catesby in The Curious Mr.
Catesby and the Elegant Mr. Abbot:
Early Naturalists in Georgia, 17221840, an exhibition opening in
September 2015 in the archives gallery
in McElreath Hall. In addition, the
exhibition contains a selection of rare
18th-century maps of colonial Georgia
and the Southeast.
In addition to the display of Catesby
prints, the exhibition includes a
selection of prints and watercolors by
John Abbot, the “Pioneer Naturalist
of Georgia,” an Englishman who
lived and worked in sections of east
Georgia, 1775-1840. Abbot depicted
the birds and insects of the colony as
well as the moths and butterflies that
are represented in his landmark 1797
publication, The Natural History
of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects
of Georgia. Catesby spent a short
time traveling through Georgia while
Abbot resided here for most of his
life – between them, their depictions
of the flora and fauna (including
Lepidoptera!) have left us both a
scientific as well as an artistic record of
our nature’s past.
The Flying Squirrel - Viscum
[Flying Squirrel with Agave or American Aloe]
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Hand-colored copperplate engraving
Plate 77, Volume II
Watermark on hand-laid paper: IHS / I. VILLEDARY
First edition, ca.1739
Gift of the Ivy Garden Club, Cherokee Garden Library
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A Rare Botanical Volume Honors
the Forward Arts Foundation’s
50th Anniversary
By Staci L. Catron, Cherokee Garden Library Director
The Forward Arts Foundation has generously funded the
acquisition of a rare botanical volume entitled Floral
Belles from the Green-House and Garden,
Painted from Nature by Clarissa W. Munger Badger,
published in New York by Charles Scribner & Company
in 1867, to significantly enhance the Garden Library’s rare
book collection and to honor the fiftieth anniversary of
the Forward Arts Foundation. This charming American
flower book with hand-coloured plates is among the best
folio flower books produced in America. Containing a
hand-colored lithographed frontispiece and fifteen handcolored lithographed plates, the volume is in its original
nineteenth-century full black morocco binding with broad
floral gilt borders and gilt lettered title.
Clarissa W. Munger Badger (1806-1899) was an
illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative,
as she amply demonstrates in this book. Each flower
portrayed is also the subject for a poem that serves
as text for the illustration. Species represented
include Azalea, Geranium, Roses, Jasmine, Bretia
(frontispiece); Camellia & Begonia, Night Blooming
Cereus; Fuchsias, Cactus, Scarlet Geranium; Calla
& Poincettia; Passion-Flowers, a bouquet of Roses,
Narcissus, Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley, Tulip & Dielytra;
Salvia & Dielytra; Pansies, Moss Rose; Tulips, Rose of
Gethsemane; Larkspur & Japan Lily; and Asters.
The hand-colored plates, coloured by Badger over very
light lithographed lines and without captions (thus giving
the plates the appearance of original watercolours), were
executed in an era when chromolithographs were fast
replacing such skilled hand work.
A Bouquet of Roses, Narcissus, Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley,
Tulip and Dielytra
Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden, Painted from Nature
By Clarissa W. Munger Badger
Hand-colored lithograph
Plate 37
1867
Gift of The Forward Arts Foundation, Cherokee Garden Library
A contemporary advertisement for the work by the
publisher describes it as follows: “The volume is a stately
folio elegantly bound in Turkey morocco, and the paper
and presswork, and the whole mechanical execution
are perfect. There are sixteen pictures in the volume—
favorite or representative flowers—and each of them is
painted from nature by the patient and laborious hand of the artist, and with such exquisite care and taste, and delicacy of
touch as to vie with nature herself.” A review of the work in a December 1866 issue of Hours at Home proclaimed the work
“without exaggeration, a most unique, highly artistic and gorgeous affair—a work that reflects great credit on the artistic
taste of the country, as well as on the genius and industry of the author.”
Renowned author Jack Kramer writes in his 1996 volume, Women of Flowers: A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators:
“Though little is known about her life other than the landmark dates of her birth, marriage, and death, Clarissa W. Munger
Badger’s fine drawings and talented hand have survived to keep her name alive.”
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Southern
Garden Writers
By Roger Duvall
In some sense, the writers included here are all regional writers, addressing a
regional audience, and because of that I have, very reluctantly, left out some
of our best and most influential authors. Henry Mitchell and Pamela Harper,
who both gardened in the northern end of zone 7, would most certainly be
included if they did not address a national audience. I have also restricted
this list to books intended to be read cover-to-cover. Consequently, I have
omitted the authors of reference works and manuals. Erica Glasener and
Walter Reeves, Steve Bender, Michael Dirr, Allan Armitage, Scott Ogden,
the names are probably more familiar than some of the ones included below.
Fortunately, however, even with these restrictions, there are plenty of good
Southern gardening books to choose from.
Elizabeth Lawrence: First and Foremost
Southern garden writing begins with Elizabeth Lawrence, who elevated the level of gardening throughout
the region, bringing to the Southern gardener’s attention hundreds of new and exciting plants. Lawrence’s
most important book is unquestionably A Southern Garden (1942), but Gardens in Winter (1961) is
arguably the product of a more mature and accomplished writer. The style is more relaxed, more
willing to explore around a subject. Her account of E.A. Bowles’ fascination with Iris unguicularis, for
example, his friend’s unwillingness to divide his plant and the guilt he must have felt afterward is the
product of a writer who has mastered her craft. The core of Gardens in Winter is a chapter each on
November, December, and January and there is plenty here for the practicing gardener. We all grow
one or two members of the genus Viola, but Lawrence explores the genus for the winter garden and
finds much to offer, both the species V. patrinii and V. rosina (“The flowers are small and sweet and of
a warm red-violet that is very near magenta.” (157)) and the cultivars ‘Prince of Wales’ and ‘Governor Herrick.’ Other plants
recommended for early blooming are winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) and Iris unguicularis. These plants give the restless
gardener something to anticipate through the darkest days of winter, but maybe the best way to get through those dark days
is with a great gardening writer like Elizabeth Lawrence.
William Lanier Hunt: Southern Gardening Legend
William Lanier Hunt is legendary in Southern gardening circles. When he left home for college at the
University of North Carolina, he brought two truckloads of plants with him. (Eventually, he donated
Hunt Arboretum to the university.) Unfortunately and inexplicably his writing has become nearly
unavailable. The only collection of his articles, published in 1982 with an introduction by Elizabeth
Lawrence, is Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening. This excellent book, no longer in print, must be
obtained through secondary channels. It is well worth the trouble, however, and provides a tantalizing
glimpse into the mind of one of our greatest gardeners. Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening consists
of a chapter for each month of the year. Each chapter has about twelve short essays, good bedtime reading
even for those who fall asleep quickly. Hunt has an uncanny knack for providing the critical bit of advice,
the single thing a gardener really needs to know about the subject. For example, the chapter “in praise of
phloxes” tells us to “take the nozzle off the hose and flood the plants once a week just as they begin to show buds. This watering
will make them bloom and bloom and bloom and bloom – longer than almost any other summer perennial.” (59) The book is
full of advice offered with a generosity of spirit that leaves the reader wishing for more from this gardeners’ gardener.
Continued on page 14
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Sandra Ladendorf: Southern by Choice
Many of the best Southern garden writers have deep roots in the South, but not all of them. As Sandra
Ladendorf says of herself, ”If a gardener cannot plan, develop, and enjoy a fifty-year-old garden, then
it is wonderful to have gardened east, west, north, and now south in our vast country.” (2) The title of
her book is Successful Southern Gardening: A Practical Guide for Year-round Beauty (1989). The
emphasis is on “practical.” Ladendorf does not often stray from her goal of providing advice to the
Southern gardener. She covers all the bases, with chapters on trees, shrubs, lawn, bulbs, vegetables,
etc. But she also includes interesting chapters on Native Plants and Meadow Gardening; Rock
Gardening; Propagation; Pests Diseases; and Chemicals. Put it beside Felder Rushing’s Gardening
Southern Style on your bookshelf. Because she covers so much territory, she cannot delve too deeply
into any single subject and she cannot be sidetracked into anecdote or lengthy descriptions. Her style
is consistent with her approach, practical and straightforward. This is not to say that she is not an accomplished writer;
she wrote a successful garden column for the Raleigh News & Observer. And she learned from the best, counting three of
the writers in this article, Elizabeth Lawrence, William Hunt, and Nancy Goodwin, among her friends. Successful Southern
Gardening is an useful book, especially for anyone who is beginning to get serious about gardening in the South.
Laura Martin: Garden Historian
Laura C. Martin has written extensively about wild flowers and gardening in the South, including a
weekly column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her book Southern Gardens: A Gracious History
and a Traveler’s Guide (1993) was given a Quill and Trowel award by the Garden Writers’ Association
of America. It is an ambitious book, telling the history of Southern gardening through 32 gardens,
many, but not all, open to the public. Some of the gardens are familiar: Monticello, Biltmore, Callaway
Gardens; and some are not: Orton Plantation Gardens near Cape Fear, North Carolina, or Dixon
Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. In the back of the book, Martin suggests seven driving
tours to visit the gardens, but before taking off, remember that the gardens have been selected because
of their historical interest, and not all of them have been maintained as horticultural showplaces.
Felder Rushing: The Public Face of Southern Gardening
Felder Rushing comes across as a good old boy. Sometimes he would have you believe that he is lazy,
but nothing could be further from the truth. He has hosted a television program and a call-in radio
program on an NPR affiliate. He has served as a board member of the American Horticultural Society
and national director of the Garden Writers Association. He has written numerous magazine articles
and a newspaper column and has authored or co-authored 18 gardening books. His Gardening Southern
Style (1987) covers all aspects of gardening, but is especially useful for gardeners who want to grow fruits
and vegetables. For those who are interested in flowering plants, however, his best book is Passalong
Plants (1993), which he wrote with Steve Bender. As Allen Lacy says in the foreword, the book is “a hoot
and a holler.” Consider some of the plant categories: plants noted for certain strange features; plants that
friends insist on giving you, whether you like them or not; garish plants that show your good taste. The
book consists of essays, each about a page long, on plants that gardeners share. Most of the plants are part of a Southern, rural
tradition. Today many Southern gardeners, who have moved here from other parts of the country and live in cities and suburbs,
are not in the loop. Passalong Plants offers a way to participate in the Southern gardening tradition and have lots of fun doing it.
Carol Bishop Hipps: Down-home Expertise
Carol Bishop Hipps is as Southern as they come. She lives and gardens in Huntsville, Alabama, and
previously lived for a while in Atlanta at the corner of Ponce de Leon Ave. and Argonne Ave. She has
never gardened outside the South and her voice, typically Southern and down-to-earth, reflects it.
When she tells us that “Most modern Malus hybrids smell like wire flyswatters,” (52) or that scarlet
Salvias “clash with pink flamingos” (161) she is solidly in the tradition of the Southern humorist.
But do not be taken in; she knows a great deal about plants and is a very talented writer. When she
describes a plant, she skillfully blends the technical terminology of a botanist with the warmth and
humor of a front-porch storyteller. Her only book, In a Southern Garden (1994), contains a chapter
for each month; each chapter is divided into short essays, most of them about a plant genus, but
sometimes about other subjects such as powdery mildew or slugs. She has read the southern writers
that preceded her, Elizabeth Lawrence, William Hunt, Michael Dirr, and frequently refers to them, but she refers with equal
respect to those of her gardening friends who are not so well known, such as Willodene Mathews and Myrtice Phillips. The
two-page introduction is a little gem, telling what a gardening book should be and why we need Southern gardening books.
Southerners are very lucky to have this one.
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Nancy Goodwin: A Gardener’s Life
Nancy Goodwin and her husband Craufurd (whose name is spelled with two u’s) collected the art of
the Bloomsbury group, one manifestation of the arts and craft movement in England. Perhaps this
explains why, before we read a word, we are drawn to this book, because it is certainly a beautiful
book. The illustrations by Ippy Patterson have a lot to do with that, but everything about the book,
the dust jacket, the page layout, the integration of illustrations with the text, contributes to make it a
work of art. At first, the title seems almost generic, Montrose: Life in a Garden (2005), but it is not.
The subject, as the title suggests, is all the many forms of life in the garden: plants of course, but also
insects, animals both wild and domestic, friends and visitors, and most important, the gardeners,
Nancy Goodwin and her assistants. The writing, like everything about the book, is understated and
beautiful. This is how she introduces Cheryl Traylor, one of her assistants: “She has bangs and medium
brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. About five feet five inches with Italian features, she strides through the garden as if
on a mission and works away at each task until it is finished. Her casual, comfortable manner and amusing sense of humor
combine with a remarkably intuitive mind. She often gasps in wonder at the first sight of a plant in flower or a pot of newly
germinated seeds.” (10-11) Montrose offers plenty of advice to the gardener, but the shelves are full of books that do that.
Few books, however, so effectively celebrate the life of a gardener.
Jenks Farmers: The Good Old Ways
Jenks Farmer is a Crinum farmer and landscaper who lives and works in South Carolina. His book,
Deep-Rooted Wisdom: Skills and Stories from Generations of Gardeners (2014) is not nostalgia or
reminiscence; it is a guide to how old skills and ideas can be adapted, using the latest science, for
modern gardening. This sentence resonates throughout the book, “Gardening, like so many other
aspects of our modern world, [has become] more and more about buying things.” (18) According to
Farmer, his frugal, old-fashioned approach is both a more joyous way to garden, and the best way to
restore and preserve the earth. Farmer is an original, in the best sense of the word, and Deep-Rooted
Wisdom is a highly original book. Just consider these chapter titles: Stop the Tilling Cycle: Harnessing
the Natural Powers of Worms and Mushrooms; Watering by Hand: Using the Essential Skill of
Observation to Keep Plants Hydrated; Saving Seeds: Treasuring Heirlooms for Genetics and Nutrients;
Scavenging: Unearthing Great Plants from Many Places; and Handmade Structures: Using Garden Materials for Trellises
and Sculptures. Some gardening books are a rehashing of ideas and information that can be found in other books. Not this
one; it demands its own place on the shelf.
The Cherokee Garden Library is the ideal place to search for garden writing. All of the books mentioned in this article are
there, some in multiple editions. The following list is recommended reading for anyone who wishes to pursue this subject:
• Bender, Steve and Felder Rushing. Passalong Plants. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
• Farmer, Augustus Jenkins. Deep-Rooted Wisdom: Skills and Stories from Generations of Gardeners. Portland: Timber
Press, 2014.
• Goodwin, Nancy with illustrations by Ippy Patterson. Montrose: Life in a Garden. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Hipps, Carol Bishop. In a Southern Garden: Twelve Months of Plants and Observations. New York: Macmillan, 1994.
• Hunt, William Lanier. Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening. Durham: Duke University Press, 1982.
• Ladendorf, Sandra F. Successful Southern Gardening: A Practical Guide for Year-round Beauty. Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
• Lawrence, Elizabeth. Gardens in Winter. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1961.
• Martin, Laura C. Southern Gardens: A Gracious History and a Traveler’s Guide. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1993.
Roger Duvall gardens in Decatur, volunteers at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center garden, and is an active member of the Georgia
Perennial Plant Association. He is interested in garden writing and loves the Cherokee Garden Library. The Georgia Perennial Plant
Association hosts monthly programs, open to the public, at the Atlanta History Center on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm.
For more information, visit: www.georgiaperennial.org.
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UPDATE ON THE GOIZUETA GARDENS
AT THE ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER
By Sarah Roberts, Director of Historic Gardens and Living Collections
The Goizueta Gardens are thriving in another eventful season, with many improvements to the landscape currently in
progress. In the last issue of Garden Citings, I highlighted all the work we’ve accomplished so far with the grant from the
Goizueta Foundation. We’ve continued to check off the long to-do list of improvements in each Garden as laid out in the
2007 Gardens and Grounds Master Plan, with a few more new initiatives.
Smith Family Farm
•
Meadow Plantings – Hard, compacted gravel areas surrounding the outbuildings at the Farm were broken up with a
Harley rake and tillers; two pounds of seeds of native grasses were sown and 1,351 plugs (about two-inch wide plants) of
grasses, sedges and wildflowers added throughout; they will establish over the next few years and aid in erosion control by
absorbing storm water runoff, provide a more naturalistic, rural setting for the Farm and provide habitat for pollinators and
other beneficial insects
•
Chicken and Turkey Coop – The foundation has been prepared and historically-appropriate materials are ordered for
the imminent construction of a larger coop to house our heritage breed chickens and soon-to-be-acquired heritage breed
turkeys; a new run will be attached to the front of the coop, allowing much more room and sun for our fowl to frolic
•
Beneficial Insects – We’ve established a thriving population of beneficial insects - those that eat aphids, cucumber
beetles and other pests – by releasing them amongst our crops, providing the right habitat and conditions needed for them
to thrive, allowing us to greatly reduce the need for pesticide applications
•
Drainage and Irrigation – Improvements are ongoing as sudden showers and 30-day droughts provide pointed insight
to water management needs
•
Composting – We’ve begun on-site composting at the Farm (in an historically-appropriate heap) and begun to educate
our visitors about the benefits, particularly the children attending our summer camps
Atlanta History Center Manager
of Landscape Operations, Brian
Anthony, breaking up the compacted
gravel surface with a Harley rake in
preparation of meadow plantings at
the Smith Family Farm. Photograph
courtesy of AHC Gardens Department.
Butterfly weed – Asclepias tuberosa, Wood Family Cabin meadow in Swan Woods.
Photograph courtesy of AHC Gardens Department.
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Swan Woods and Wood Family Cabin
• New Plantings – 188 trees including holly, beech, hophornbeam, dogwood, and paw-paw (to name a few) were
planted, as well as 115 shrubs including rosebay rhododendron, buttonbush, Chickasaw plum, pinxterbloom azalea, and
mayberry, surrounding the Cabin and throughout the Woods to replace trees removed during construction
• Future Boardwalk – Designed a low wooden boardwalk for future construction, beginning at the lower lawn of the
Swan House – by the quatrefoil fountains, up to the Cabin, and through the Woods to the Boxwood Garden, which
reduces the need for some of the mulch trails that wash out in storms and are a vole habitat, provides an ADA-approved
circuit through the Woods so all may enjoy this incredible woodland, and protects the woodland flora
• Chestnut Orchard – Partnered with the American Chestnut Foundation’s Georgia Chapter to plant forty trees from
seed in the lower slope of the Cabin landscape behind the new restrooms; three B3F3 chestnut seedlings were planted
– the most advanced hybrids for resistance to both chestnut blight and phytophthora root rot; collaboration is ongoing,
this orchard will be used to test for blight resistance and potential breeding once mature
• Beekeeping – Collaborating with the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association to find the best locations for establishing
honeybee hives, spring 2017
• Bobwhite – This charismatic native bird once thrived in the Atlanta area, we are researching establishing a “covey” of
bobwhite in Swan Woods
• Meadow Establishment – When the construction for the Wood Family Cabin was complete, we prepared the ground
and sowed six pounds of seeds of native Piedmont grasses and wildflowers; throughout the year we’ve added 1,130
plugs (about 2” wide plants) of perennial grasses and wildflowers to increase diversity and support a wide variety of
pollinators; these small plants will need several years to fully develop – horticulture is the slowest of the performing arts
– but it will be a very beautiful, open and sunny meadow welcoming to visitors and wildlife alike once established
Butterfly weed – Asclepias tuberosa,
Wood Family Cabin meadow in Swan
Woods. Photograph courtesy of AHC
Gardens Department.
Wild Quinine – Parthenium
integrifolium, Wood Family Cabin
meadow in Swan Woods. Photograph
courtesy of AHC Gardens Department.
Tickseed sunflower – Bidens aristosa, Wood Family Cabin meadow in Swan Woods.
Photograph courtesy of AHC Gardens Department.
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NORMAN C. BUTTS:
ATLANTA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT,
CONTRACTOR, AND PLANTSMAN
By Jennie Oldfield, Cataloging Librarian and Archivist
Often manuscript collections tell more
than just one story. Sometimes they
offer not only biographical details of
a person’s life, but they also provide
other related stories as well. Such is
the case with the Norman C. Butts
papers, MSS 1057 recently processed
and added to the Cherokee Garden
Library manuscript collection.
Norman Carroll Butts (1888-1974)
was born in Poughkeepsie, New York,
to Allison and Arrie Butts. He attended
Cornell University and graduated in
1911 with a bachelor’s degree in landscape
architecture. Norman maintained many
relationships with classmates and
former professors including Professor
Ralph W. Curtis, with whom he later,
along with Jesse DeFrance, conducted
research regarding broad leafed
evergreens, some of which originated
at Fruitland Nurseries in Augusta, now
home to Augusta National Golf Club.
Norman worked for Werner Boecklin,
landscape architect and civil engineer
in New York, as well as George Burnlap,
landscape architect in Washington D.C.
and began employment as Landscape
Architect with Ashford Park Nurseries
in Atlanta, Georgia in 1912. He entered
the military service in 1917 as a private,
and then in 1918 obtained a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers in the
American Expeditionary Force, 536th
Engineer Service Battalion of Company
A. While serving he married Isabelle
MacGillis (1878-1950) in 1918 and was
honorably discharged in 1919.
After the war, Norman returned to work
for Ashford Park Nurseries in Atlanta,
Georgia, and in the 1930s he began his
own landscape contracting business
under his own name. He continued to
work with other professionals in the
field in a variety of ways. He assisted
Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey with corrections
to his book, Cultivated Evergreens,
published in 1928. Norman often worked
with other Atlanta landscape architects
such as Edward L. Daugherty, William
Norman C. Butts in his room at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1911.
Norman C. Butts Collection, Cherokee Garden Library, Kenan Research Center
at the Atlanta History Center. Special thanks to Mr. Harold E. Bailey for donating the
Norman C. Butts Collection to the Cherokee Garden Library in honor of his friend, the late
Mr. Norman C. Butts.
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Boxwood Garden for Mrs. H. Cobb Caldwell by Norman C. Butts of Ashford Park
Nurseries, from Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933 (Atlanta: Peachtree Garden
Club, 1933). Courtesy of Peachtree Garden Club and The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.
C. Pauley, Clarence Baughman, and
H. Boyer Marx, providing plants,
materials, and landscaping support.
Over the course of Norman’s career,
he worked for a wide variety of clients,
including residential, commercial, and
government projects. He drew plans
for the Dolly Blalock Black Memorial
Garden of the Henrietta Egleston
Children’s Hospital, commissioned
by the Cherokee Garden Club and
featured in the Garden History of
Georgia (1933). Also included in this
volume are plans Norman drew for
the H. Cobb Caldwell (Southlook) and
William Kiser (Knollwood) residences.
The Caldwell estate was the location of
Ashford Park Nurseries, and current
site of the Peachtree Golf Club.
Norman worked on several public
housing projects such as Techwood
Homes and University Homes. He
provided landscaping for Capital City
Club in downtown Atlanta, as well as
the Country Club in Brookhaven and
completed several projects for the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
From the collection materials, Norman
appears to be an unassuming and
modest person, yet his work gained
him the reputation as one of the leading
authorities in the South on plants and
landscape planting. His opinions and
advice were sought out regularly by
numerous colleagues and professionals
throughout the United States.
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Personal correspondence in the
Butts’ collection provides several
fascinating stories. One of which is the
development of the game Scrabble
that Norman’s brother, Alfred,
created. Letters provide interesting
details about the game’s growth in
popularity and Alfred’s royalties.
Norman’s brothers played chess
games via correspondence, shared
their love of stamp collecting, and
created jigsaw puzzles. Also of interest
is correspondence discussing the
challenges of running a landscaping
business in the South. Norman
Butts suffered a stroke in 1959, sold
his nursery in the early 1960s, but
continued working until the late 1960s,
and died in 1974.
GARDENING
SUPERSTAR
KEN
DRUSE
Le and Beauchamp Carr, Alice Carr, Nancy Lynn, and
Cannon Carr. The Cherokee Garden Library was founded
in 1975 by the Cherokee Garden Club under the leadership of
Anne Coppedge Carr. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
INSPIRES ATLANTA
AUDIENCE
“When gardeners
garden, it’s not just the
plants that grow, but the
gardeners themselves.”
Award-winning garden writer and speaker, Ken Druse,
with Cherokee Garden Library Director Staci Catron.
Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Hampton and Carter Morris, Garden Library Endowment
Steering Committee Chair and Past President, with Barbara
and Peter Howell. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
– Ken Druse
On a lovely fall evening, author and
“the guru of natural gardening” Ken
Druse inspired a full house with his
talk “Natural Companions: The
Garden Lover’s Guide to Plant
Combinations” at the Cherokee
Garden Library 40th Anniversary
Celebration and Lecture at the
Atlanta History Center.
A special thank you to event chairs
Robin Croft, Jane Douglas
Reynolds and Caroline Vroon
for a successful event and celebration
of the Cherokee Garden Library’s
40th Anniversary on October 14, 2015.
We also share a gracious thank you
to the remarkable event designers
Elise Drake, Paula Hennessy,
Katherine and Steve Kinser,
Tavia McCuean, Fluffy McDuffie,
and Nancy Patterson.
Cherokee Garden Club members Mary Norwood and Tracy
Monk with Cherokee Garden Library Board members Teed
Poe and Margaret Stickney. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Atlanta History Center President & CEO Sheffield Hale, Elizabeth Hale, Cherokee Garden Library Board President Kinsey
Harper, and Gordon Harper. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Dal Burton, Cherokee Garden Club President Adelaide Burton, Studie Young, and Cherokee Garden Library Development
Chair Zach Young. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Cherokee Garden Library
40th Anniversary
Celebration and Lecture
Cherokee Garden Library Acquisitions Committee member
Lee Dunn, Historic Oakland Cemetery Director of Gardens
Sara Henderson, Acquisitions Committee member Susan
Hitchcock and Lynn Cothran. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Event Co-Chair Caroline Vroon, the Great Pumpkin!,
Event Design team members Paula Hennessy and Fluffy
McDuffie along with Event Co-Chairs Robin Croft and
Jane Douglas Reynolds. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Ken Druse
Natural Companions:
The Garden Lover’s Guide
to Plant Combinations
October 14, 2015
The Cherokee Garden Library
thanks its Lead Sponsor and Patrons
for their generosity and kindness.
Shepard Ansley, Garden Library Endowment Steering
Committee member Boyce Ansley, and Alfred Kennedy.
Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Sara Prescott, Event Design team member and Board
member Nancy Patterson, Event Design team member
Katherine Kinser, and Brindley Johnson. Photograph
by Jim Fitts.
LEAD SPONSOR
The Cherokee Garden Club
Community Fund
PATRONS
Mary Wayne and Bill Dixon
Louise Staton Gunn
Paula and Mark Hennessy
Studie and Zach Young
Mrs. William B. Astrop
Ellen and Duncan Beard
Adelaide and Dal Burton
Lee and Mike Dunn
Katharine and Alan Elsas
Mrs. Joyce E. Ferris
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fiveash
Carter and Hampton Morris
Libby and Ernie Prickett
Jane and Bill Whitaker
Stockton Croft, Event Co-Chairs Robin Croft and Caroline Vroon, Bryan Vroon, Event Co-Chair Jane Douglas
Reynolds, and Tom Reynolds enjoying the celebration. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Cherokee Garden Library Board member Cannon Carr, Endowment Steering Committee Chair and Past President Carter
Morris, Board member Raymond McIntyre and Past President Louise Gunn. The following endowment funds were
established by donors to honor members of our community and improve the Cherokee Garden Library’s offerings that are
central to its mission: The Anne Coppedge Carr Research and Director’s Fund; The Carter Heyward Morris Acquisitions Fund,
The Ashley Wright McIntyre Programming and Education Fund (named in memory of Ashley McIntyre), and The Louise
Staton Gunn Conservation Fund. Photograph by Jim Fitts.
Virginia and Bond Almand
Elaine Hazelton Bolton
Alice and Jim Carr
Le and Beauchamp Carr
Caroline and David Crawford
Robin and Stockton Croft
Elise and Carl Drake
Elizabeth and Sheffield Hale
Margaret and Tom Hall
Kinsey and Gordon Harper
Alfred Kennedy and Bill Kenny
Jim Landon
Ione and John Lee
Kathy and Richard Lee
Lynn and David Lowance
Lindsay W. Marshall
Mary and Felton Norwood
Nancy and John Patterson
Teed and Sadler Poe
Jane Douglas and Tom Reynolds
Blair and James Robbins
Claire and Frank Schwahn
Sally and John Seeds
Margaret and Charlie Shufeldt
Esther and Jim Stokes
Suzie and Jim Viebrock
Caroline and Bryan Vroon
Helen and Chris Wray
DAN FRANKLIN: LESSONS FROM
A SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
By Nancy Hamburger, Landscape Architect
Sitting with a cool drink in hand, under
a whirring ceiling fan on a screened
porch in a garden, is the perfect way to
experience Atlanta’s humid summers.
And if you’re in the company of friends,
swapping jokes and sharing stories,
the lush environment of your treasured
garden is intensified.
Few sought to create that unique
Southern setting more than Atlanta
native Dan Franklin, a landscape
architect of the old school who in fact
went back to school later in his life to
study the profession, graduating in
1963. With tremendous character
and style, sometimes irascible but loved
by many, Dan appreciated all the fine
things in life and vigorously practiced the
art of perfecting the Southern backyard.
Now a decade after his passing, it’s
time to celebrate Dan’s garden legacy
and honor his contributions—a vision
embodied in his own home garden on
Buckhead’s Cottage Lane.
Dan was a sought-after landscape
architect who designed gardens
that were praised for their style
and uniqueness. He was a design
traditionalist. It’s valid to point out
that Dan was considered a “character,”
Dan Franklin in his home garden in Atlanta. Photograph courtesy of Nancy Hamburger.
using peppered language, a quality
that clearly identified him. After a
day’s work, a relaxing evening in the
garden was customary. However,
this article seeks to suggest a design
philosophy based on some of the
visual language of his personal garden
and to share principles and themes
that are classic, fresh, and timeless
based on Dan’s compact urban garden.
His home located on Cottage Lane
in Atlanta was often referred to as a
“cottage garden.” Yet, the organization
of the garden was a formal layout based
on a rectangle as the primary area.
The garden and patio were directly
related to the house and encompassed
the entire back lot. The garden was
relatively small but provided a platform
for many features including a garden
entertaining sttructure, referred to by
Dan as the “privy,” a fish pond, garden
beds as well an additional side garden
in a naturalized style. The garden and
house, related by a primary axis from
the house, were linked in a cohesive
whole forming a strong connection
between the house and the land.
A secondary axis from the garden
structure further subdivided the length
of the garden.
Design principles and applications
are evidenced throughout the garden.
The outside entertainment structure
established the primary focal point.
The screened building was elevated
upon a low retaining wall shaped by
initial grading of the property in order
to create a flat garden space. The relative
scale of the components of the garden,
including the outbuildings, the pond
and urns, and finally the plantings
produced an orderly emphasis. The eye
was able to recognize the focal point,
and then progress to other elements.
Other elements were subordinated so
that the eye roamed around the garden
determining a hierarchy of importance.
An emphasis of movement was clear
when one entered the patio at the grade
of the house and then ascended a few
steps to enter the garden.
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Use of materials and plants fashioned
a distinct “Southern” flavor. Grey
granite cobblestones and curbstone
that, according to Dan, were harvested
from the streets of the city of Atlanta,
set a relaxed yet lush tone of the
patio as a place for gathering. Being a
perfectionist, Dan worked in tandem
with the masons to establish a pattern
that was not too tight and not too loose
. . . just right for his requirements. The
lawn was edged in granite cobbles that
provided for the continuity of materials.
An old millstone set into the grass added
another touch of the past.
The white picket type fence that enclosed
the space on one side further extended
the architecture of the house into the
garden. The fence established a
background for the garden beds and
reinforced a “cottage” garden ambience.
Planting and garden beds intermixed
natives and non-native plants. From
stately billowing boxwoods to informal
blue phlox, the garden reflected Dan’s
taste and style. The garden plantings
evolved over the years. In the early
years, the rear property line was less
defined. But, with the introduction
of Cryptomeria japonica, Japanese
cedar, the rear of the garden developed
enclosure. Winter’s plantings were
subdued with masses of boxwood.
Building blocks of design including
rhythm and repetition, and color to
enhance the garden for three seasons.
Planting beds flourished in spring
with bulbs, perennials and annuals,
and underwent countless variations.
Borders were relaxed compared to the
straight edges of the lawn and pond.
Terracotta planters held brightly
colored pansies in the winter were
changed for summer annuals. The
presence of blooming native azaleas
in pinks and oranges was an element
of surprise to the side yard.
Dan’s garden reflected the knowledge
of a gifted professional with flair and
taste that were his own. The garden
plan, based on tried-and-true principles
of design resulted in a harmonious
blend of the practical and essential with
a keen vision of uniqueness. His legacy
of creating special places, fashioned by
a sense of scale and balance and based
on Southern traditions, established Dan’s
place in the region for four decades.
For more information, you may view
the collection of his work at the Owens
Library at the College of Environment
and Design at the University of Georgia.
(Melissa Tufts, Owens Library and
Circle Gallery Director, 706.542.8292
or [email protected])
Nancy Hamburger is a landscape designer
in Atlanta who graduated as an adult from
The School of Environmental Design at the
University of Georgia. She worked for Dan
Franklin in the 1990’s.
GIFTS TO THE CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY ANNUAL FUND
Donors who gave between January 1, 2015 and October 20, 2015. The Cherokee Garden Library thanks you for your generosity.
The Garden Library is working to reach its annual fund goal for FY2015-2016, and we need your help. We encourage you to add your
support to the Garden Library by making a donation online AtlantaHistoryCenter.com/CherokeeGardenLibrary or by sending a check
to Cherokee Garden Library, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. These monies allow us
to continue to offer special programs and exhibitions to the community as well as to add to and preserve the collections. We thank you!
VISTA ($5,000 and over)
Anonymous
Cherokee Garden Club Community Fund
Forward Arts Foundation
Louise Staton Gunn
ALLÉE ($1,000 to $4,999)
Ellen and Duncan Beard
Cherokee Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.
The Garden Conservancy
Mary Wayne and Bill Dixon
Mr. Al Goodgame
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gray
Margaret and Tom Hall
Paula and Mark Hennessy
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Kibler Jr.
Virginia Wayne Dixon Molloy
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Morrison Jr.
Frances Wilkins Robinson Endowment Fund
on behalf of Betsy and Lee Robinson
Esther and Jim Stokes
Ms. Julia Waterfill
PERGOLA ($500 to $999)
Virginia and Bond Almand
Sharon and Bonneau Ansley Jr.
Mrs. William B. Astrop
L. Courtenay Beebe, MD
Elaine Hazelton Bolton
Ginny and Charles Brewer
Adelaide and Dal Burton
Elise and Carl Drake
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PERGOLA ($500 to $999) (cont.)
Lee and Mike Dunn
Katharine and Alan Elsas
Pam and Mike Elting
Mrs. Joyce E. Ferris
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fiveash
Mr. and Mrs. F. Sheffield Hale
Iris Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Alfred Kennedy and Bill Kenny
Mrs. Lindsay W. Marshall
Carter and Hampton Morris
Libby and Ernie Prickett
Catherine Nunnally Rawson
Margaret Dykes Stickney
Susan and Frank Troutman
Jane and Bill Whitaker
TOPIARY (To $499)
Mr. and Mrs. Howell Adams Jr.
Mrs. Sally Allen
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Alston Sr.
Avondale Estates Garden Club, Avondale Estates, Georgia
Backyard Association, Coweta County, Georgia
Linda and Jim Balkcom
Julie and Jim Balloun
Ann and Hal Barrett
Lola and Charlie Battle
Teri and Mose Bond
Alleen D. and James H. Bratton Jr.
Mr. McKnight Brown
Ms. Renee Brown-Bryant
Buckhead Lions Club Foundation, Inc.
Nancy and Dan Carithers
Le and Beauchamp Carr
Alice and Jim Carr
Mr. John D. Carswell
Mrs. Janis Chapman
Cherokee Garden Club, Lawrenceville, Georgia
Mrs. Lynn P. Cochran
Mrs. Beverly B. Coker
Mrs. Lynn Cothran
Caroline and David Crawford
Robin and Stockton Croft
Ms. Nancy J. Crookshank
Mrs. Anne Culberson
Jane Rush Davenport
Rebecca Harper Davenport
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Daugherty
Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. D’Huyvetter
Mary and Everette Doffermyre
Mynel and David DuBose
Dunwoody Wells Questers Chapter
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Duggan
Claire and Marshall Evans
Mr. and Mrs. John Ewing
Mrs. Ken Gearon
Georgia Perennial Plant Association
Priscilla and Jack Glass
Gratus Capital
Mr. Hunt Harper
Kinsey and Gordon Harper
Mrs. Sally W. Hawkins
Mrs. Oliver M. Healey Jr.
Sydney McCampbell Healey*
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Hills
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Mary Katherine Hodgson
Jane and Phil Humann
Mrs. JoAnn M. Jones
Lauren Harper Kalen
Ms. Page M. Kjellstrom
Mr. John F. Kiser
Mr. John Knox
Ladies’ Garden Club, Athens, Georgia
Mr. Jim Landon
Molly and Tommy Lanier
Ione and John Lee
Kathy and Richard Lee
Ms. Rebecca Levit
Lynn and David Lowance
Ms. Teresa Luckert
Nancy and Jerry Lynn
The Marines of the United States Marine Corps
Coordinating Council of Georgia
Mr. David Hamilton McCain
Denise and Jay D. Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lamar Mixon Jr.
Moraitakis & Kushel, LLP
The Newnan Carnegie Library Foundation, Newnan,
Georgia
Mary and Felton Norwood
Ann and Scott Offen
Paces Gardeners Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Nancy and John Patterson
Mr. James B. Peters
Planters Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Teed and Sadler Poe
Ms. Lynn Pollard
Mrs. Lula P. Post
Mrs. Martha Price
Libby and Ernie Prickett
Mr. William G. Pritchard, Jr.
Mr. Daniel B. Rather
Jane Douglas and Tom Reynolds
Riverridge Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Blair and James Robbins
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robinson
Olive Wilson Robinson
Dean Hargrett Rogers
Nell and Bret Schiller
Scottie and Chris Schoen
Martiele Sineath Schroder
Claire and Frank Schwahn
TOPIARY (To $499) (cont.)
Sally and John Seeds
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Shaffer Jr.
Mr. James Shepherd
Margaret and Charlie Shufeldt
Andrea Sprott
Rosa and Neal Sumter
Ms. Poppy Tanner
Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Thompson Jr.
Mrs. Terry Vawter
Suzie and Jim Viebrock
Susan and Frank Virgin
Caroline and Bryan Vroon
Mr. Marshall Wellborn
Ms. Siri Werner
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Whitman, Jr.
Ms. Linda M. Williams
Mrs. Mernie Williams
Helen and Chris Wray
MEMORIALS
In Memory of James R. Cothran
Ms. Renee Brown-Bryant
Mrs. Lynn Cothran,
in remembrance of his birthday in April
In Memory of Sydney McCampbell Healey (cont.)
Olive Wilson Robinson
Nell and Bret Schiller
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Shaffer Jr.
Mr. James Shepherd
Susan and Frank Troutman
Susan and Frank Virgin
Mr. Marshall Wellborn
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Whitman, Jr.
Helen and Chris Wray
In Memory of Rawson Foreman
Ann and Scott Offen
In Memory of Florence Griffin
Mrs. Sally W. Hawkins
In Memory of Sydney McCampbell Healey
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Alston Sr.
Sharon and Bonneau Ansley Jr.
Linda and Jim Balkcom
Ann and Hal Barrett
Lola and Charlie Battle
Mr. McKnight Brown
Buckhead Lions Club Foundation, Inc.
Nancy and Dan Carithers
Mr. John D. Carswell
Mrs. Lynn P. Cochran
Ms. Nancy J. Crookshank
Jane Rush Davenport
Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. D’Huyvetter
Mary and Everette Doffermyre
Mynel and David DuBose
Mrs. R. Marshall Evans
Priscilla and Jack Glass
Gratus Capital
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gray
Kinsey and Gordon Harper
Mrs. Oliver M. Healey Jr.
Ms. Mary Katherine Hodgson
Jane and Phil Humann
Ms. Page M. Kjellstrom
Molly and Tommy Lanier
Nancy and Jerry Lynn
The Marines of the United States Marine Corps
Coordinating Council of Georgia
Mr. David Hamilton McCain
Moraitakis & Kushel, LLP
Carter and Hampton Morris
Ann and Scott Offen
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Peters
Libby and Ernie Prickett
Mr. William G. Pritchard, Jr.
Mr. Daniel B. Rather
In Memory of Jacqueline Thiesen Reynolds Kennedy
Mary Katherine Hodgson
Mrs. John Knox
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Morrison Jr.
In Memory of Caroline and Frank Kibler
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Kibler Jr.
In Memory of Elizabeth Lawrence
Andrea Sprott
In Memory of Mrs. Margaret Luckert
Ms. Teresa Luckert
In Memory of Sally-Bruce McClatchey
Sharon and Bonneau Ansley Jr.
Katharine and Alan Elsas
Louise Staton Gunn
Carter and Hampton Morris
Libby and Ernie Prickett
Dean Hargrett Rogers
In Memory of Catherine Nunnally
Catherine Nunnally Rawson
In Memory of Dr. Mark Pentecost
Mr. and Mrs. John S. McClelland Jr.
In Memory of James Brooks Sineath
Martiele Sineath Schroder
In Memory of Elizabeth “Betty” Haverty Smith
Ann and Scott Offen
In Memory of Brencie Werner
Ms. Siri Werner
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HONORS
In Honor of Staci L. Catron
Backyard Association, Coweta County, Georgia
Georgia Perennial Plant Association
Ladies’ Garden Club, Athens, Georgia
The Newnan Carnegie Library Foundation, Newnan, Georgia
Planters Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Riverridge Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Andrea Sprott
In Honor of Kathy Lee
Pam and Mike Elting
In Honor of Mary Palmer Dargan
The Garden Conservancy
In Honor of Ann Offen
Pam and Mike Elting
In Honor of Lee Dunn
Dunwoody Wells Questers Chapter
In Honor of Mrs. H. Sadler Poe (Teed)
Mrs. Lindsay W. Marshall
In Honor of Pam Threlkeld Elting
Ann and Scott Offen
In Honor of Scottie Schoen
The Garden Conservancy
Denise and Jay D. Mitchell
In Honor of Anne Gray
The Garden Conservancy
In Honor of Louise Staton Gunn
Ann and Scott Offen
In Honor of Kinsey Appleby Harper’s Birthday
Rebecca Harper Davenport
Lauren Harper Kalen
Mr. Hunt Harper
In Honor of Judge Frank M. Hull
Mrs. Lindsay W. Marshall
In Honor of Debe Cuevas Lykes
Mrs. Anne Culberson
In Honor of Lindsay W. Marshall
L. Courtenay Beebe, MD
In Honor of Claire Schwahn
Cherokee Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Elizabeth King Prickett
Margaret Dykes Stickney
Mrs. Terry Vawter
In Honor of Joy Vannerson
Dunwoody Wells Questers Chapter
In Honor of Marsha P. Webb
Paces Gardeners Club, Atlanta, Georgia
In Honor of Carolyn O. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Duggan
In Honor of Barbara Kennedy
Cherokee Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
In Honor of Katie Levit’s Birthday
Ms. Rebecca Levit
CONSERVATION/ADOPT-A-BOOK FUND
Mrs. Beverly B. Coker
Iris Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Morrison Jr.
Martiele Sineath Schroder
Ms. Julia Waterfill
Ms. Linda M. Williams
THE GARDEN CLUB OF GEORGIA, INC. FUND FOR THE CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY
Ama-Kanasta Garden Club, Douglasville, Georgia
Athens Garden Club, Athens, Georgia
Augusta Council of Garden Clubs, Augusta, Georgia
Azalea District
Bellmere Garden Club, Johns Creek, Georgia
Brookwood Hills Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Burkeland Garden Club, Waynesboro, Georgia
Camellia District
Camellia Garden Club, Rome, Georgia
Carrington Woods Garden Club, Milledgeville, Georgia
Conyers Garden Club, Conyers, Georgia
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Country Hills Garden Club, Sewanee, Georgia
Covington Garden Club, Covington, Georgia
Cumming Garden Club – Evening, Cumming, Georgia
Dogwood District
Driftwood Garden Club, Newnan, Georgia
Fleur-de-Lis Garden Club, Gainesville, Georgia
Green Thumb Garden Club, Roswell, Georgia
Iris Garden Club, Augusta, Georgia
Killarney Queen Garden Club, Thomasville, Georgia
Ladybugs Garden Club, Lilburn, Georgia
The Landings Garden Club, Savannah, Georgia
THE GARDEN CLUB OF GEORGIA, INC. FUND FOR THE CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY
(cont.)
Laurel District
Lawrenceville Garden Club, Lawrenceville, Georgia
Madora Garden Club, Hartwell, Georgia
Magnolia District
Magnolia Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Milledgeville Garden Club, Milledgeville, Georgia
Moonflower Garden Club, Barnesville, Georgia
Mountain View Garden Club, Rome, Georgia
Odum Garden Club, Odum, Georgia
Old Capital Garden Club, Milledgeville, Georgia
Old Town Garden Club of Sharpsburg, Sharpsburg, Georgia
Palmyra Heights Garden Club, Albany, Georgia
Pine Center Garden Club, Fairburn, Georgia
Pine Needle Garden Club, Augusta, Georgia
Pine Tree Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Pine Tree Garden Club, Hartwell, Georgia
Planters Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Primrose Garden Club, Johns Creek, Georgia
Rambler Rose Garden Club, Thomasville, Georgia
Redbud District
Riverside West Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Rose Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Sandy Springs Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Skint Chestnut Garden Club, Douglasville, Georgia
Spade and Trowel Garden Club, Thomaston, Georgia
Spalding Garden Club, Dunwoody, Georgia
Spartina Garden Club, Townsend, Georgia
Springfield Garden Club, Springfield, Georgia
Town and Country Garden Club, Milledgeville, Georgia
Vienna Garden Club, Vienna, Georgia
Vineville Garden Club, Macon, Georgia
Watkinsville Garden Club, Watkinsville, Georgia
Winder Garden Club, Winder, Georgia
Wisteria Garden Club, LaGrange, Georgia
MATCHING GIFTS
The Coca-Cola Foundation
RBC Foundation
IN-KIND DONATIONS
Dominium
Paula and Mark Hennessy
McCracken & Associates
Robert Long Floral Design
Mrs. Tavia McCuean
We sincerely apologize for any errors or omissions in this list.
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JOIN THE CHEROKEE ROSE SOCIETY
“Preservation of our heritage is so important.
And if we don’t care for that heritage, who will?”
– Cherokee Garden Library Founder, Anne Coppedge Carr
The Cherokee Rose Society of the Franklin Miller Garrett Society celebrates those
honored donors who have chosen to make a planned gift to the Cherokee Garden Library
at the Atlanta History Center. Although charitable gifts may be made to the Garden Library
through a variety of means, significant support in future years will come from those who
include the Garden Library in their total estate plans. By creating a personal legacy, the
Cherokee Rose Society will also create a lasting legacy for the Cherokee Garden Library.
Please join us in this important endeavor. To join the Cherokee Rose Society or to learn
more about this opportunity, please contact Garden Library Director, Staci Catron, at
404.814.4046 or [email protected].
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BY ADOPTING A BOOK
esearchers come to the Cherokee Garden Library regularly to study volumes from the rare book collections. For
many researchers, the depth needed for their scholarly endeavors can only be realized when they work with a
volume in its original format. Many books in the rare book collections of the Garden Library must be repaired and
restored in order for researchers to continue to have this same level of access.
The Adopt-A-Book program encourages donor support for
conservation treatment of fragile and damaged volumes in
the collections. Please consider making a tax-deductible
contribution that will help the Garden Library to preserve
these volumes for current and future researchers. All
donors are recognized in the Garden Library’s newsletter,
Garden Citings, and are invited to have a special look at
conserved volumes in the collections.
For more information, please contact Staci Catron at
404.814.4046 or [email protected].
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BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT DONATIONS
In addition to purchases throughout the year, the Garden Library relies on the kindness of book and manuscript donors to
strengthen its collection. It is a generous deed for a donor, whether an individual or an organization, to part with beloved books
and other records to enhance the quality of the Garden Library’s holdings. We extend our deep appreciation to these donors.
For more information on how to donate materials, please contact the Director, Staci Catron, at 404.814.4046.
Book and manuscript donors who gave between March 16, 2015 and October 1, 2015, and who have signed a formal Deed of
Gift. The Cherokee Garden Library thanks you for your generosity.
A.
Donation from Elaine Hazelton Bolton:
1. Records and yearbooks of the Garden Club of Griffin, ranging in date from 1947 to 1998.
2. History of the Federated Garden Clubs of Griffin and Spalding County, 1946-1948.
3. Records from the estate of Dr. Turner S. Davis (1924-1998), Associate Professor of Horticulture and registered forester for the University of Georgia, College of Agriculture, Experiment Stations, ranging in date from 1933 to 1987.
4. Twenty-seven contemporary seed and nursery catalogs from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
B.
Donation from Linda Fraser, Botanical Artist:
1. Lance, Ron. Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern United States. Mills River, NC: Ron Lance, 2014. Signed by Author.
C.
Donation from Mr. James R. Fortune, Jr.:
1. Landscape architectural drawings and professional records from the office of J. Newton Bell, Jr. (1919-2008), 15th registered landscape architect in Georgia, ranging in date from 1958 to 1994.
D.
Donation from the Dahlia Society of Georgia:
1. Articles, photographs, records, and scrapbooks of the Dahlia Society of Georgia, 1934-2014.
2. Collins, Ted. Dahlias. The New Plant Library. London: Southwater, 2001.
3. Damp, Philip. Growing Dahlias. London: Croom Helm, 1981.
4. Hastings, Louise and Donald. The Southern Garden Book. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1952.
5. Smith, N. Gerard. Dahlia Cultivation. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy Inc., 1949.
6. Records of the Southern States Dahlia Association, 1954-2008.
E.
Donation from Edward L. Daugherty, FASLA:
1. Bulletins, correspondence, research, plans, and write-ups pertaining to the creating of the street tree ordinance and street tree
movement in the city of Atlanta, led by Norman C. Butts, landscape architect and Edward L. Daugherty, landscape architect,
beginning in 1962.
2. Clay, Grady and Landscape Architecture Magazine, editors. Landscapes for Living: A Landscape Architecture Book. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1980.
3. Landscape architectural drawings by Edward L. Daugherty for the Cator Woolford Garden, Frazer Center, Ponce de Leon Avenue,
Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1990s.
4. Landscape architectural drawings by Edward L. Daugherty for Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Georgia, 1969.
5. Landscape architectural drawings by Edward L. Daugherty for Hahn Woods, Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003.
6. Landscape architectural drawings by Edward L. Daugherty for Woodlands, Scott Boulevard, Decatur, Georgia, 2004.
7. Landscape Architecture magazine, January 1961, April 1997, January 2013 [filling gaps in existing collection].
8. Map of downtown Atlanta showing the location of Mrs. William P. Hill’s garden (once the John C. Hallman House ca. 1880), 499
West Peachtree Street (between Pine Street and Prescott Street), included in the 1933 publication, Garden History of Georgia, 17331933, at what is now 426 W. Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30308.
9. Photocopy of Field Trip map for the American Society of Landscape Architects Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, January 28, 1953;
map by Atlanta landscape architect, William C. Pauley.
10. Photographs taken by Edward L. Daugherty in 2013 of the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helget, Atlanta, Georgia, showing
remnants of a garden designed by landscape architect William C. Pauley in the 1930s.
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BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT DONATIONS (cont.)
F.
Donation from Ryan Gainey:
1. Book contract, correspondence, original handwritten manuscript, and original typed manuscript for book entitled The Well-Placed
Weed by Ryan Gainey.
2. Botanical illustration of Camellia japonica ‘Ryan Gainey,’ 2015.
3. Chapter on Ryan Gainey from Rosemary Verey’s The American Man’s Garden, undated.
4. Color photograph of Camellia japonica ‘Ryan Gainey,’ 2015.
5. Correspondence to Ryan Gainey from renowned English gardener and garden writer, Rosemary Verey, ranging in date from 1985 to
1991.
6. Obituary of Rosemary Verey from The Economist, 16 June 2001.
7. Original unpublished, typed book manuscript for “Cut and Come Again,” by Ryan Gainey, undated.
8. “Ryan Gainey: A Profile,” written by Rosemary Verey, undated.
9. Story written by Ryan Gainey regarding his friendship with Rosemary Verey, undated.
10. Three photographs of Rosemary Verey in her garden, undated, and two photographs of Ryan Gainey and Rosemary Verey, undated.
G.
Donation from Mary Katherine Greene:
1. Burroughs, Laura Lee. Flower Arranging – A Fascinating Hobby. Atlanta: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940 (with original mailing
envelope with The Cola-Cola logo).
H.
Donation from Louise Staton Gunn:
1. Haskell, Eric T. The Gardens of Brécy: A Lasting Landscape. Paris: Huitième Jour Éditions, 2008. Signed by author.
I.
Donation from Davyd Foard Hood, in memory of his grandparents, Caleb Edney and Bertha Hicks Rudisill:
1. A 1945 calendar published by the P. D. Fulwood Company, growers and shippers of high grade vegetable plants, of Tifton, Georgia.
J.
Donation from Davyd Foard Hood:
1. Guidebooks, postcards, and guides pertaining to 2015 Historic Garden Week by the Garden Club of Virginia.
K.
Donation from Iris Garden Club, Atlanta, Georgia:
1. Iris Garden Club records and scrapbooks, ranging in date from 1947 to 2009.
L.
Donation from Andrew D. Kohr, PLA, ASLA:
1. Fourteen student research papers on a variety of garden history topics from Clemson University/College of Charleston graduate
program under the direction of Professor Andrew D. Kohr, Spring 2015.
M.
Donation from Ione Coker Lee:
1. Article entitled “Lois Coker Japanese Camellia: A Wintertime Gem Rooted in South Carolina,” The South Carolina Nurseryman,
January/February 2015.
N.
Donation from Evelyn M. McGee:
1. Eleven articles and periodicals pertaining to garden history and gardening.
2. Forty-five contemporary books pertaining to garden history, gardening, landscape design, and plants.
3. Twenty-five contemporary seed and nursery catalogs.
O.
Donation from Orra Sue Naglich:
1. Cascade Garden Club (Atlanta, Georgia) records, photographs, and scrapbooks, ranging in date from 1933 to 1993.
P.
Donation from Mrs. Robert L. Oliver, Jr. (Gwin Oliver) from the personal library of her mother, Mrs. Clyde F. Anderson, Jr.
(Mary Elizabeth “Lib” Mabry Anderson):
1. Biography and photograph of Mary Elizabeth “Lib” Mabry Anderson.
2. Records of DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, ranging in date from 1993 to 1997.
3. Records of Shenandoah Rose Garden Club, ranging in date from 1991 to 1994.
4. Records and scrapbooks of Designers Club of Atlanta, ranging in date from 1963 to 2009.
5. Thirty-six contemporary books pertaining floral design (with a particular focus on Japanese flower design) gardening, and landscape
design.
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Donation from Walter C. Sedgwick:
1. Crawford, Robert L. and William R. Brueckheimer. The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation: Tall Timber Research Station
and Land Conservancy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
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BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT DONATIONS (cont.)
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Donation from William. T. Smith, ASLA:
1. Client records and landscape architectural drawings of William T. Smith, ASLA, for thirty clients in various locations including
Atlanta, Augusta, Gainesville, Marietta, and Macon, Georgia as well as Elkin, Highlands, and Lewisville, North Carolina.
2. FitzGerald, Olda. Irish Gardens. London: Conran Octopus, 1999. Signed by author.
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Donation from Deborah Timberlake:
1. 20 record center boxes of notebooks containing slides of the work of Atlanta photographer, Virginia Twinam Smith (1923-2015),
depicting plants and gardens in the Atlanta area.
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Donation from Sara L. Van Beck:
1. Van Beck, Sara L. Daffodils in American Gardens, 1733-1940. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Signed by
author.
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