The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-05-04

about her work a practical yet becoming
costume The chief charm of TINS outul
IS its perfect comfort and suftapility- very
thick-soled. high-laced boots, a frieze skirt
barely reaching the ankles, a giasham
shirt waist and wide straw hat are It's
chief features. But the lady gardener Is
always careful to don heavy loose gloves
and those who are ardenty interested III
the enterprise, either for love or money
insist on knowing how to WELD hoe. spade
and pruning knife.
A Kitchen Garden.
After the fashion of the new woman
Mrs. Wetmore first studied Horticulture IN
an its branches. and then laid out tWo
acres after her own notions of what a
garden should be. There IS quaint
matched roof gate and vine-clad stone
pumphouse ut the entrance, ana aElnoih5
roses struggle with luxuriant grapeV-neS
In covering a quarter Of a mile OF l"l.S
arrors. Trim box hedges inclose Ne6e'Slp.e
beds. bordered with gayly booming oiu-
fashioned plants, wall flowers, sweet VII
liam sspiderwort, marigoids ana the Ike.
Mrs Wctmore does not make any 'iiol'
70 cultivate fruits or flowers for marke-'
but she does boast that the hneSl N'ae-
tables the country round come IRON Her
beds and that there is no season OF the
year when her table and vases are not
abundautly supplied from that fertile anu
blossoming four acres
Consecrated to Beauty.
Like all of her nower-loving sisters. she
i an expert with the garden tools, ana
plainly calls hers a kitchen garden, Which
she believes for a modest outlay Is lile
most useful and interesting for a woman
To cultivate, though her near heiSi'''o''
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, can 9Ho" ="
,,rfoct examDle Of her own SIKH = 4
iondscape architect on the classic ltaitdi
Man Mrs Cruger's garden IS merely zee
s,,rdan beautiful fruits and vegetables D.
~, relocated to the farm lana acres "i'N
marble Dianas, flying daphnes' etc. ~
terspersed among the green dl9ies a''O
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT arbors
Here and there are carved gray a'o..o
seats. such as one sees IN NINA 1910 -.
t,,,rcs little fountains bubblinB ltoih
-, ,,asips filed with gold fish and wal I
,nia. i'm short. a hit Of old Italy set do"A
-, tbo shores of Long Island sound where
mo mistress in summer gives W.
i.e,n moonlight garden parties, RECEIVING
ber guests, suppiTg ana entertaining '.-'i'
among the roses.
The Dutch Garden.
Fran, her splendid gardens that overlook
tho Hudson river from the eastslde hils'
Mrs. samuel Colgate sends TO New orN
markets an abundance Of prize Violets our
inc the winter hut, like Mrs Cruger, she
laid out and manages her garden chlehy ds
an ornament, and has followed the laws OF
the Dutch landscapes most carefully Aer
prida is centered in her tulips, lines, hya-
cinths and gladiolus. the bulbs of which she
brought herself from Holland. throughout
her garden the eversreens and hedges are
clipped on the Dutch pattern and the mead
gardener is a Dutchnan.
one can never presage, however, "ha1
form a womans horticultural tastes VIII
take for Mrs Taher-Willets, of Long Island
raises carrots, beans. asparagus ana corn
i'm a boX-bordered garden along with rev
beds of sweet peas and wall flowers Her
enthusiasm is for vegetables and she mas
personally proved that a little woman VITA
one farm assistant can keep five acres OF
nourishing green truck in irreproaehdnle
condition. Miss Eastwick, of Philadelphia.
turns her attention to mushrooms ana
small fruits, supplies the Lakewood hotels
and grows simple flowers in the fence
corners.
She is one of the women who took up
gardening for her health and can swing
a hoe down a long row without drawing
an extra breath and puts in from four To
five hours steady labor in her garden every
dav She ard Mrs Willets, Mrs. West
more and Mrs. Floyd-Jones believe that