this is a picture taken in rural Mississippi in 1933. It is not my photo. I do not know whose it originally belonged to. The bottles are on dead trees. This custom came with the slaves to Southern America and has been practiced in Egypt for centuries. There are even very old paintings of English homes with a small bottle tree in a garden. We are coming to the party late but with a big attitude.
If you want more information on the custom of bottle trees go to Felder Rushings web site. He is a southern gardener that now lives part time in England. He became interested in bottle trees as a youngster when he first saw one at an old homestead in the south. He has a very nice little bottle tree book also.
