Faith Ann & Jerilyn, Not fair you are bringing back NJ memories of the beautiful old trees and flowers. My memories were of Lilac's. We always had big purple ones and their smell, I swear I can smell now. I used to take a piece of paper and with a pencil and poke holes in it with a message to my Mother. You take the lilac flowers and put them in the holes, so pretty and the aroma. Have one here and it doesn't like the South. My neighbor gave it to me 7 yrs ago and its still only 2 ft. tall, BUT it had 2 small flowers this year. I hope it lives. Our Apple tree was such a delight. My Dad had an old army saddle and he put that on a rope so we got to swing on that. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] flowers > Hi there, > Forsythia, one side of my childhood home was covered with forsythia bushes, > this was always our spot for pictures. My bedroom on the second floor of our > home looked out on the back garden, there was a very large, old apple tree, I > always looked forward to it coming in bloom, it was just so beautiful. I could > sit in the window and look at it for hours, I could even see it while I was > in bed. Then there was my Grandmothers tulip garden, to this day tulips are my > favorite cut flowers. As I write this I am looking at a pot of mini tulips > here on my desk. My husband brought them for my office. > Oh such sweet memories, thanks for getting us thinking of them. > Faith Ann > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

FaithAnn, We also have lovely forsythia bushes in our front yard.I have pages in albums of my brother and me in our Easter duds in front of those pretty blooms. NJ DOT has planted hundreds of forsythia bushes along Route 55 in South Jersey that create at virtual sea of golden from Deptford to Millville.I look forward to a ride every year just to enjoy the riot of color. Jerilyn