A winding garden path disappears into a fairy-tale cypress forest, its sandy edges lined with drifts of tulips in soft pink, butter yellow, and blazing orange, while dark mirror-still water reflects the soaring trunks of ancient cypress trees draped in moss — this is Cypress Gardens, the breathtaking water garden carved from a former rice plantation reservoir outside Charleston, South Carolina. Opened to the public in 1932 by Benjamin Kittredge, Cypress Gardens offered visitors the singular experience of paddling flat-bottomed boats beneath the cypress canopy, surrounded by azalea-banked shores and reflected skies. This linen card, published by the E.C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee and distributed by F. J. Martschink Co. of Charleston, captures the garden's springtime tulip display in vivid linen color — a scene that drew visitors from across the Eastern Seaboard during the golden age of Southern garden tourism. The back text evocatively describes "azaleas reflect their flaming colors in the onyx waters."