Sue Sanders recalled that in the 1870s, ” Ma planted morning-glories and set out flags, [Iris] both the white and the purple kinds. She loved flowers a heap, and when the haws bloomed in the spring, [Cratagus variety now extinct in the area] she kept the house filled with their blossoms. At the windows she had sweet-potato vines growing in bottles, and they made as pretty a house plant as you could ask for.”