Evening star., 1919-02-22
Describes Gardens Beauties.

Saving that during eight years
while taking morning walks he has
found no other place so interesting,
entertaining and Instructive" Repre-
sentative Sloan launched into a de-
scriptiop of some of the beauties of
the Botanic Garden that appealed to
him:
You see all the flowers from all
parts of the earth, from the modest
violet and most delicate orchid up to
the gorgeous American beauty and
the resplendent flower of the sun.
National flowers are there-the rose
of Britain, the lily of France. the
thistle of Scotland and shamrock of
Ireland. There are flowers which
bloom only in daylight under kiss of
the sun, while there are those other
strange creations which yield blush
and smile only under the cover of
night. There are plants which con-
tinue in bloom through the large part
of their existence, while there is that
patient, stately, living column which
only once in a century's span dis
plays it's colors."
In this century plant he found
war symbol and won applause from
the House when he said:
In this garden a century plant
bloomed in 1917. Its life began about
the close of the last American-British
war, when the capital con1agration
set by enemy hands was raging. 1t
bloom in 1917. when America and
Britain fought together to defend
their respective capitals against a
cruel and vanda1 foe"
The tree-life in the garden was a
phase Of the speech that seemed to
Interest the House members par
ticularly and Representative Sloan in
dulged them with a recital of the
famous trees planted there by great
men of American history, as follows:
Trees of World There.
Throughout that garden there is
every tree from every part of this
great globe. We have there the coffee
and tea, the tree of life, the crown
of thorns, the Banian, the tall pine.
many varieties of the sturdy oak and
the stately elm.
There are interesting legends of
that institution concerning trees that
are found there. Eminent men in the
course of the history of this institu-
tion planted trees there.
Charles A. Dana, the great editor,
carried an acorn from the grave of
Confucius and planted it here 1t
stands in solemn grandeur, lifting
each year its head higher in air as il
10 look to its far-off source of being.
You VIII find beautiful acacia
that plant of deep root planted there
by Gen. Grant 1t will bloom not far
from his tomb. that future ages may
know the right
Two cedarS of Lebanon whose an
cestors furnished timbers for King
Solomon's temple, were planted and
thrive there, placed by Senators Hoar
and EvartS.
The peace oak, planted by Senator
Crittenden of Kentucky-who could
more appropriately plant it than he?
The friend of Clay, the 'Pacificator'-
from the state which gave birth in
one year to Abraham Lincoln and JEFF
ferson Davis.
"Trees or the Tragedians."
standing in triangular position are
the trees of the tragedians' Edwin
Booth. Edwin Forrest and John
Wilkes Booth. Each selected the bald.
Those of the elder Booth and Forrest
are tall and stately. The other dwarf
ed and sickly, presents the spectacle
of natures rebuke to his infamy, while
the others are tributes to the mastery
OF a great art
-over in the eastern part of the
garden is the famous hornbeam, the
most outrageous tree / ever saw,
dts compact foliage a perfect shield
from sun and to a large degree pro-
lection from storm. 1t covers one
tenth of an acre of earth. Here the
birds nest and sing. Their chorus of
the morning and their subdued or
chestra at vesper are worth your walk
to the garden This sound, protective
tree was planted by Abraham Lincoln
suggestive of his memory now safe,
and the cardinal economic policy
which he professed, because he was
for all of the United States and all
for the United States. He stood for
nationalism against sectionalism.
Many believe if he were living now he
would have still stood for nationalism
against internationalism."