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es lead you through ^?er changing-yisfas of shrub and floral reauty’ and variety — where the Cherokee roses, wisteria and wild cherry share honors with camellias, azaleas, ardesia, mountain laurel, spiraea, gardenias, iris and ferns of many kinds — where each in its season welcomes the garden’s guests with its joyous burst of blooms.
TRICKLING BROOK
There is a trickling brook whose gurgling you follow to a mirror iike lagoon across which is a delightful rustic bridge. And on this ; bridge you stop — you don’t really ' know why — except that there is a compulsion inside you to prolong ihe beauty that encircles you, to enjoy as long as you can the ex-hilirating and soothing smell of the piney woods, and the tranquility and peace of this woodland wonderland.
Further along you casually en-i counter, and your sense of fitness I solutes a split rail fence and some small log cabins. The old mill 1 wheel powered by a mere water 1’'rickle will fascinate you. And sud Idenly you will see in your path . the life size statue of Louis IX himself, the crusader King of
along the Jordan.* When Mr. Cruixip retired from the cotton business in whicl	had been engaged for
nearly j years, he entered op. a
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o! Holly Bluff Gardens is only' one phase. He has converted cut qvej-land, the site of former timber forestland, into some of the finest grassland clover pastures in Mississippi.
CATTLE DEVELOPMENT
He has gone into the development of Braford cattle, starting in the early Fifties with a herd of 32 head of three-fourths Hereford and one-fourth Brahman, purchased in Texas.
And he has been experimenting with upland rice for sixteen years.
Holly Bluff on the Jordan is not only one of the most beautiful gardens in the South but it is a little cattle and agricultural kingdom whose owner is «*operating with Hancock County on a complete farm plan.
DARWOOD ON THE JOURDAN
Just about twenty years ago Dr. Emmett Lee Irwin a prominent surgeon of New Orleans, purchased nearly 600 acres of virgin woodland extending about a mile on the south bank of the Jourdan River
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ing been originally transplanted from Clinton, Louisiana, to New Orleans and from New Orleans to Darwood by Dr. Irwin where it is still lustily thriving and dispensing blooms of four different colors. ARDESIA ABUNDANT
There is the ardesia (including an albino ardesia) so abundant in Darwood that one of the trails is known as Ardesia Walk. There are hydrangeas, spirea, azaleas, red yuccas, thousands of the red spider lilies known as Naked Lady fourteen different types of bamboo, tung, crepe myrtle, wisteria, mimosa, gardenias, blueberries, huckleberries, the wild sweet olive — over a hundred and fifty different kinds of native shrubs and plants. Towering pines and the beautiful dcgwood are everywhere.
Frequently the paths emerge
cases from Chateau Thiery and Verdun, each with their personal history; a camphor chejt from China; in fact a treasure house of-antiques, heirlooms and mementos of many lands and many years.
Darwood on the Jourdan is now close to twenty years old — every, year of which has seen more plants added, more beauty conceived in the careful planning of its informal arrangement — a beauty spot so full of the flowers and shrubs that flourish on this subtropical river bank location that even Dr. Irwin, who has patiently and persistently created it, has no idea of how many there are. Once he lost a particular white perfection camellia, secured another with great pains, and planted it — only to find that he had planted it within a few feet of the one he thought he had ,ost.
The Bay St. Louis Shrine Of Our Lady of the Woods
Throughout the early history of Bay St. Louis the name of Father | Louis Stanislaus Buteux stands 1 out proudly and prominently. He ijwas assigned to Bay St. Louis as
its first regular priest by the Bishop of Natchez in 1847. The following year he laid the cornerstone of “Our Lady of the Gulf Church,” the community’s first permanent place of worship, eliminating the j necessity, as before, of conducting Mass in the Court House, th; j Grand Hotel or in the homes of : private citizens. And during the I next ten years, before he was re^ lieved by Father LeDuc, he was responsible for the establishment ! of two of the famous present day educational institutions of Bay St. Louis.
It was Father Buteux who brought from France the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, who devote their lives to the education of youth, to found and conduct St. Stanislaus, the historic Boys Catholic Boarding School of Bay St. Louis, named after his patron saint, that celebrated its hundredth birthday in 1954. This sturdy school has survived hurricanes, wars, epidemics and once almost total destruction of its buildings by fire. Today its cross crowned dome facing the Gulf of Mexico guides you to an educational institution (also famous for its athletics) whose grounds and facilities ex -tend almost a mile in depth.
I EQUALLY RENOWNED
Nearby is the equally renowned St. Joseph Academy, only one year younger than St. Stanislaus, a Catholic grammar and high school for girls under the supervision of the Sisters of: St. Jo-
seph — also inspired by the same indefatigable Father Buteux.
After about a decade of devoted duty to his parishioners Father Euteux went back to France for a short but much needed rest and recuperation, and in January of 1858, the same year the city was incorporated, started on the return voyage to his beloved Bay people.
But on the way home a storm battered the ship so severely it sprang a dangerous leak and it looked as though all on board would perish unless the fury of the wind and waves abated. Father Buteux fell on his knees and invoked the aid of Our Blessed Mother to whom his devotion had been long and faithful. His first wilderness church in the Illinois Indian country had been named “Saint Mary of the Woods” and he had dedicated his Bay St. Louis pastorate “Our Lady of the Gulf.” S.o, witl* confidence he called upon Her for help, and promised to build a shrine in her honor if all were spared. His prayers must have been answered because the battered hulk safely made harbor at Bay St. Louis.
TRUE TO VOW True to his vow Father Buteux immediately sent to France for a Statue of Our Lady and when it arrived he gathered his flock, the Brothers and the Sisters, and in involved solemn procession marched to the woods in the rear of the convent and blessed it under the title of Our Lady of the Woods. The trunk of a tree served as its first primitive pedestal and the Sisters of St. Joseph planted that beautiful avenue of cedars that line the path to the shrine.
some serious trouble promised the Lady that if he were helped in his difficulty he would build a covering for the statue. The favor was granted and he erected the modest shelter that remains to this day.
The pastel colored figure of “Our
Many years later a parishioner Lady of The Woods,” like the
church and the two schools which Father Buteux established, h a i also withstood both time and the elements and this year has been standing a full century. In fact both the Shrine of Our Lady of the Woods and Bay St. Louis celebrate their Hundredth Birthdays this summer.