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Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed for the reason that Civil War, I doubt that there’s in all the South a place where it has changed not up to at the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I have no idea in the entire country a place that I will have to fairly see again in springtime – the Georgia springtime, when the air is sort of a tonic vapor distilled from the earth, from pine trees, tulip trees, balm-of-Gilead trees (or “bam” trees, as the negroes call them), blossoming Judas trees, Georgia crab-apple, dogwood pink and white, peach blossom, wistaria, sweet-shrub, dog violets, pansy violets, Cherokee roses, wild honeysuckle, azalia, and the evanescent green of new treetops, all carried in solution in the sunlight.
Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed for the reason that Civil War, I doubt that there’s in all the South a place where it has changed not up to at the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I have no idea in the entire country a place that I will have to fairly see again in springtime – the Georgia springtime, when the air is sort of a tonic vapor distilled from the earth, from pine trees, tulip trees, balm-of-Gilead trees (or “bam” trees, as the negroes call them), blossoming Judas trees, Georgia crab-apple, dogwood pink and white, peach blossom, wistaria, sweet-shrub, dog violets, pansy violets, Cherokee roses, wild honeysuckle, azalia, and the evanescent green of new treetops, all carried in solution in the sunlight.