This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...there are asters the year round, carnations, African daisies of all colours, most of the annuals, gladioli, and lilies, so one is not at a loss to find flowers for the house. Perhaps the best of these private gardens are those along Nuuanu Avenue, which was settled early, and those in the vicinity of Oahu ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...there are asters the year round, carnations, African daisies of all colours, most of the annuals, gladioli, and lilies, so one is not at a loss to find flowers for the house. Perhaps the best of these private gardens are those along Nuuanu Avenue, which was settled early, and those in the vicinity of Oahu College, although this general division does not mean that there are not good gardens in all parts of the city. One of the most satisfactory places, from the picturesque point of view, is Washington Place, the home of the Queen, near the Hawaiian Hotel. It surpasses most because the house is as good as the garden, and both express the tropics. The house has wide lanais, supported by high white columns, something in the Southern colonial style, and is simple and dignified. Around it are great trees that shut away the street, that keep the house always cool. The whole has an air of retirement expressive of the attitude of the Queen herself. There are everywhere beautiful single gardens, stately avenues of royal palms, masses of colour, street after street made beautiful by the devoted work of the "Outdoor Circle," but what the visitor carries away as something which can never be forgotten is not the impression so much of any single spot as of the whole; of one great garden where many men have built their habitations--a garden in an amphitheatre of glorious mountains over which march columns of clouds that gleam white against the blue of the sky; a garden looking out over a shining, tropical ocean, peaceful, happy in the sunshine; an oasis, small but perfect, in the immense desert of the Pacific, CHAPTER VIII OAHU The Island of Oahu, halfway between Kauai and Maui, contains 598 square miles and is the third in size of the group. The shore line is...
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