The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29
ODD FANCIES IN GARDENS
HOBBIES TO WHICH SOME
 VEIL KNOWN
English Women Are Very Much
 Devoted.

English Women Are Very Much
 Devoted.
 A recent number of an English jour nal mentions the gardening fads of cer-
 tain well known English women, and
 though gardening in America is, be- cause of climate, a matter less simple
 than English gardening, still American women who have country places might find interesting suggestion in these
 hobbies of their English cousins.
 The Duchess of Somerset has, it
 seems, one of the finest herb gardens in England, and is versed in all it's lore.
 She has, too, an Old World garden
 which might stand for a model of it's kind. here grow all the old fashioned flowers in wild luXuriance, and beyond l the yeW walks are sunny spaces flower
 encirced, where sun dials mark the
 passing hour and peacocks strut mag
 nificently over the green turf. Lady Warwick has a wonderful Old | World garden, too, at Easton lodge,
 but it is only one of a group of gar dens to which she is devoted She has
 also her sentiment garden, where each !
 ing and stands as a symbol of bygone
 days of sentiment
 Jt should be an ideal first aid to young lovers, that garden at Easton i lodge, for the owner has had her fa- vorites labeled for the benefit of those 1 less skilled in flower lore than she, and there's nothing a lover couldn't find help in saying, provided he famillarized himself with the garden and It's possi- bilities before planning his scene and stage setting. The modern young man and mad know more about the com parative merits of clerks and drivers and artificial flies and bull pups than about the language of flowers, but garden of sentiment might have its charm even for this unromantic gen eraton.
 Another of Lady Warwicks fancies is her friendship garden, where each Towering plant has been planted by one of her intimate friends and wears heartshaped label bearing the name of the friend and the date of the plant ing.
 A Shakespeare garden has its own corner at Easton lodge and holds only flowers to which Shakespearean quota tions can be fitted The lily and the rose gardens are wonderfully beautiful, too, but the Viscountess Falmouth has the rose gardens par excellence.
 Gardening is her hobby. Roses are her mania, and though she does not go in for the poetic side of gardening as Lady Warwick does, she understands the science of gardening as few anna teurs do Her rose gardens at Castle Maidstone are perhaps the most beau worth a long journey.
 Such a riot of roses one seldom sees evenin sunnier climes. There are roses everywhere, mass upon mass of stand ard roses, climbing roses covering walls | and pillars and porticos and trellises, framing windows and arches, shower ing down a rain of petals on every pas serby and making all the air heavy | with sweetness
 Lady Helen Vincent Is another fla l nous gardener whose roses are a pro- verb; but better than her rosery she 1 loves what she calls her garden of | scents-a garden given over entirely to | sweet smelling flowers and breathing | fragrance at every pore. Lady Helen 1 has a dial garden too, which is a re- stored Tudor garden of much earlier century, and because her best loved | colors are light blue and white she has had her ground planted with narcssus and forget-me in such lavish quan- titles that through the spring months the whole place is abloom with white and blue.
 Apropos of sweet smelling gardens, Lady Londonderry's Wynward lemon thyme garden is famous. and the visit or who walks through it will find the fragrance clinging to his clothes for days afterward
 Lady Londonderry devotes an i'm nense amount Of care and time to her gardens but they are, for the most | part, of a formal type and remarkable | 3hiefiy for their curious designs When Lord Castlereagh was married, she planted a garden in the colors of his .egiment and the beds still Haunt the 'egimental colors bravely, in spite of he winter frosts and summer worms, md other foes.
 Lady Grosvenor has one of the most 'harming gardens of England, at 5aighton Grange, on the Dee. The ,lace in olden times, belonged to the Abbott of Chester, and Lady Gros- 'enor has clung to the monks system ( if gardening, so her garden is paved /; with stones, as it was in the old days, ( md is perhaps the quaintest garden in he country.
 The flowers grow as though inspired I " religious zeal and there is a saving hat all seeds and plants are blessed in | he monks garden. To add to the re- ( gious flavor of the old world spot. q 4ady Grosvenor has planted in one of C ts hooks what she calls her All Saints arden in which grow only flowers amed after holy men and women or in = ome way associated with their lives.-. lew York Sun.
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