The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-05-03

servatories. and both will be famed In
amateur gardening for their. discoveries
ana collections.
or all the orchids owned by Miss Helen
Gould, she Is said 10 prize none as she
prizes certain great water-lily pond IN
her domains. This is stocked with lilies
that seem to wake up with the sun and
to go TO sleep only when blanketed with
Ice. All summer there is a sheet OF sweet
ness lying over the water.
The little cripples OF Woody Crest en-
JOY these lilies. At Woody Crest all ths
useful arts are taught, and the currlcu-
lum embraces knowledge OF flowers.
With crutches or without crutches. with
legs or without them, the little sick fell
lows are brought TO the lily pool and
coaxed back to strength by the magic
OF its beauty. Almost any day, with
borrowed child or two. you may see Miss
Helen vending her way from the lily
pool to the house and back again. with
SO many fine friends as this young wo-
men boasts she is not driven 10 the 80
ciety of her Woody Crest acquaintance.
All the children of the wide Hudson river
colony are glad to accompany her IL she
will only be lat home" to them. Her
s35, coo palm is not more a source or pride
to her than her lily pool.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger. the So
ciety writer who prefers the pen to the
ballroom, likes window gardens. Not
the glorified window garden OF the florist,
with the plants arranged and with a shop
window look about them, but the simple
little greenery things that come up out
OF boxes and beautify the easement.
MRS. CRUGER'S GREENS.
in the English basement window OF
her house, only a block or 50 from where
the great McAlister grew his palms In
his front windows. Mrs. Cruger INDUCES
in window gardens to her full pleasure.
Her principal front one is only foot or
two from the sidewalk. IL isn't much,
but the hand that cares for II might be
making a mark in literature. which
occupation is as profitable for her as II
~as for her grand-uncle, Washington
Irving.
Ii is recorded of Washington Irving
that, when he went that holiday into
the empty halls Of the Aston Library 70
ask the assistant librarian-whom Irving
knew would be at leisure at that time
TO witness his will, he, Irving, wore
sprig Of green in his buttonhole. In one
Of irving's letters he speaks Of that bit
of green as his inspiration 'in trying
moments" And Dickens loved a rose
bush in his yard next TO Dick, his yellow
canary. Both sang" 10 him.
The two most remarkable brides OF
the spring, Miss Pullman and Mrs. Ben
1amin Harrison, love lilies. The former
has them I'm her laces, wrought in by
cunningest hand. The latter will have
them around her portal at that country
home near Valley Forge where she and
the General are 10 summer. Valley Forge
and George Washington's hardships. that
winter he ate potatoes off a board (see
school history have an association only
separable by the thought that this nine
teenth century hero win raise lilies with
his bride where his predecessor was glad
of palmer tubers.
The pink lily, specimens OF which were
seen at her first lat home" in Minneapo-
lis. will be grown by her.
There is n man who is professional
flower festival agitator. He gets up the
flower gardens, the battles OF flowers and
the flower marts every year, going syste-
rnatically from town to town. He Is
man Of wealth and his floral eccentric-
ties are viewed as harmless vagaries. HIS
method plays particularly upon the floral
loves OF his victims.
Going 10 a new town-one that mas no
flower festiyal-he wearsl daisy In his
buttonhoe. "Why do you wear daisyF
asks some one. because like t." re-
plies the flower man. SHOULD think
you'd choose a rose. Roses are plentiful