“SOUTHERN BOTANICAL SPLENDOR-- Hanging gray Spanish moss with spots of deep blue sky coming through forms a perfect canopy for the gay, delicate colors of the camellias, azaleas and other semi-tropical flowers found in numerous public and private gardens in North Carolina.”

Source: Image and caption from "Southern Botanical Splendor," postcard NC 23 in Variety Vacation Land, Raleigh, N.C.: Department of Conservation and Development, [1939]. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VCp917 N87c.