In a message dated 4/14/2006 2:00:19 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
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Next  week, I return home to NJ. Spring is well underway there with  flowers, 
 
and birds, and green grass. My house is as I left it - safe,  secure,  and 
filled with our family photos, well loved furniture, and a   garden to dig 
in. I 
will never take it for granted again after these last  few  months in 
Louisiana. 




Julip;
 
There is one thing about Montclair ; it was so well planned (or parts  anyway 
)
that by the 1920's the lots were such that they couldn't really be  
subdivided .
George Innes was a eccentric , wonderful  landscape painter who moved  his 
studio to Montclair (Belleview Ave ) in the 1880's and 90"s while  keeping his 
commercial address in New York thus setting off a trend that allowed  the  well 
to do like wise . The railroad enabled the businessman  to get to the Hoboken 
ferry and be in lower manhattan in no time .
Innes like every gardener and home owner to follow insured the town and its  
boulevards were lined with hardwood trees ,slate sidewalks , front and back  
yards to garden ,grow vegetables ,and in the case of my yankee grandfather 
raise  bees and grow bearded Iris , and build a secluded backyard paradise of gold 
 fish ponds and marble sculpture.
Mountainside ,I trust still has world famous Iris gardens and the Van Vleck  
estate is a must this time of year ......not to mention Julips front yard  
...have one on the porch for Py xoxoxo 
   

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