At golden hour, a path of warm sandy earth divides twin reflecting pools edged with ribbons of tulips in sunset orange and red, drawing the eye toward an octagonal brick garden house half-hidden in a bower of blazing azaleas — this is Middleton Place, the oldest landscaped garden in America, situated fifteen miles from Charleston, South Carolina on the banks of the Ashley River. Laid out beginning around 1741 by Henry Middleton, who would later serve as President of the First Continental Congress, these formal gardens survived the Civil War and a devastating earthquake only to bloom again for a new generation of visitors who discovered them in the early twentieth century. The back of this linen card, published by F. J. Martschink Co. of Charleston, describes the gardens' "eerie, mystical quality of beauty" and their "calm and peace" — language that speaks to the almost supernatural lushness of the Carolina Low Country in spring. This vivid sunset-toned card is a wonderful artifact of 1930s Southern garden tourism.