The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-04-08
Interesting Description of Miss Reyes
Garden.

In the Woman's Home Companion for
Anil is a description Of old'time gatufen,s
- ,he Connecticut valley by Charles I'd
AL Uooner. which makes interesting
rn,d;ng 10 anyone who is Interested ~
IA ,;ma stories. The author writes:
,.o,, ne far north a. Windsor and from
,here south 10 Long Island Sound, seareh-
Inc everywhere | could find the the slght.
est clue and found two gardens INA.
,oallv date from colonial DAYS. ana otnet
which were over 90 wears old. NY nrss
end was al Putney. Vt, the gardeh VI
Miss Caroline Keyes. This garden was
Great iavoritc of Rudyard hlphhg NM
often visited il while living IN nrat'le
horo. and il Is said even copied w
some extent in his wonderful sussc1 20
don. The Keyes garden, and indseo wy
whole plot, was laid out ny Mlss NY
father 70 wears ago, ana y was - az
srIl,. planned. both for arrangement am
,I ,;n, that Il was well worth copying.
Thn antbor gives detailed description oil
~ Garden. house, grounds and dineh'
s;nns ~ the garden and describes the en-
trance 10 the garden thus: The entrance
from the house ward is through mos
,;cturosnue arch OF latticework, ana ne
row az old fruit trees are ovefruh WIZ
rrana vines. These start from the arnor
III having covered il ramhle over ,he
.,aa.ons in fine abandon The author
,SJs II closing. Even the most ardent
81 Garden pilgrims could not expect 10
Srd many such treasures as the heyes
aardon ~ putney." The whole descrip
.;on of his garden is well worth reading
as the beautiful spot is a iamlilar sight
TO citizens Of Putney,
Mrs Ole johnson of Springfield, VT
was n visitor in town this week.
p W Huntley of Brattleboro. has been
snandinr few days in town this week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Corser went
Thursday TO Boston for few days stay
Nice Edna Harniss and friend, Mr.
Write of Saxtons River, visited in town
Tuesday.
Cortez Boutwell, went "Wednesday 70
Townshend to visit his brother u'iper'
Boutwell,.
Mr. and Mrs George Bush OF Green
field were over.Sunday guests at H. H.
Patterson's.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Blodgett have
zone tbis week to their new home III
Bernardston. Mass.
A regular meeting of Putney grange
will be held tonight. The program VIII
consist of mock trial
Marion and Mildred Barrett OF Brattie-
horo have been guests of their grandmoth-
er. Mrs. Wright, this week
George Fl Braley has finished carrying
milk on the milk route and his place mas
been taken by Ephraim Bowie
Tho Fortniphtlv club and few invited
guests will be enterta1ne1a 1 VS. anoe'no'n
at the home of Mrs. H. G. Warren.
Miss Alice NJ. Locke went Monday 10
Mass. to spend Few Gays
with her sister, Miss Florence H. LOCKE
Mrs G. A. Poland returned home Mon
dav from the Memorial hospital at brat
tleboro. where she has been for ten weeks.
Mrs Martin and little son, Kenneth, OF
have been guests OF MIS-
Martins mother, Mrs Wright, tins week
M. f. Robbins and DR.. G. ). Foster
wont to Bellows Falls Tuesday to attend
tbe dedication of the new Masonic tenn
Pile. w,
Mrs Addie d. johnson returned wed
oesdav from a visit of several weeks IN
Springfield Westfeld, Mass, and HART
ford, Conn.
Mrs. Frank Holt and HONS wen
rbnrsdav to Ludlow to visit Mrs. Hollis
mother and grandmother. They expect to
return Saturday.
Mrs w. E. Hubbard and daughter,
of BrattleboTo. have been anS guess Mr
Of Mr.. and Mrs; 9. Il. lhwing anu MI
and Mrs. W. j. Perry.
There will be no service in the Congre-
rational church next Sunday morning;
.Lool will no held at noon and
Christian Endeavor at p. m, as usual.
Miss Mabel Dix of Nottingham, class
mate of Miss Elizabeth Braley at North
Rralev for a week, returning home Thurs
lay.
Tho members of Golden Rule chapter
IRE invited to attend a meeting of Bing-
ham chapter at Brattleboro this evening,
1 being the annual visitation OF the
yrand officers of the o. Z. s.
Rev. J. E. Berry and Mrs. s. M. Ben