Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-16
SOME FAMOUS GARDENS
NOW At THEIR BEST
Favorite Hues or Kind Rule in
Most Sumptuous Plots Where
Flowers Are Grown.
rom The New York Evening Pos {.

From The New York Evening Post.
No gardener ought to be partisan, an,
vet any honevbe will tell YOU that ln nj
the howcrbcds ON his route there are con
tlnuous whisperlngs of favorltlsm. ht
potunlaS get the very cream OF tht
sprlnkling, and why? Because the man
who sprinkles prefers pctunlas. 1t IS wei
known that the rambler was uncovered
FIRST this spring, while a dozen other bushes
were left in their shabby winter suits of
stray ;fpd aS for the gracClesS tav0rltISm
thatI give the sweet peas the SunnleSt part
of ttIT fence and left the nasturtumS IN
the shade WHY, II is the talk of the whole
garden. so we know that although any
garden at all Is Il lovesome thing some
people must like one kind more than
another
Within visiting distance Of the city
are specialized gardens whose owners
rtISanshlp has wrought enchanting
floral harmonles, and our own two
botanical gardens. In Brooklyn and The
Bronx. have corners devoted TO a single
type of plant or flower East of Call
fornia there is no public Japanese garden
80 beautiful and authentic as thai IN
BROOKLYN With its waterfalls and
curved bridges, ITS lake with lotus, bronze
cranes and a Shrinc-gate, lis masses oi
wIstara and azalcas, tins bit OF the
Orient. lust off Flatbush avenue, offers
everyone who climbs the little rocky
paths a glimpse Of traditional Nippon.
And II is appreciated Two guards have
to stand there every Sunday, because ot
the insane longing of a part 81 he puhlc
to tear up and carry of. On the Could
estate nj Lakewood there Is q charming
private Japanese garden.
IL.
thc Wild Flower Garden and Rock Car
den. where the Wild flowers, that grow
Nrhin ii hundred miles of New York City
and 500 species Of Alpine plants are
qourl>mng iii captivity Tins is one Of the
finest rock gardens in the country posi-
blk the hest although Clarence Ioun,
at Poughkeepsic. has ono that is famous
among amateur rock gardeners. In the
beds Of the Brooklyn wild flower garden
are burdock and huttcrcup, thl~tlc-,
pinks. and yellow lady fern. The aromati,
swamp rose. AMI Wild and meadow rose
bushes, and along the Woodsy Wild
Flower Path. that winds under low
branches above i arc lady slippers. Wild
gcranumS and many another forest po~y.
THE F1xFsr IRIS GARDENS
Down from the japanese garden tum-
bcs little brock. with IRIS growing
jhtckly among the soft green willows along
l'~ banks Tins Is small specialized Ills
garden for the Brooklyn botani~t~ have
III their particular field hc Japanese lri~,
vhle th, very large and elaborate Iri-
garden RON being made up I'D Tine Bronx
viii concentrate upon the ficur-dc-lIs
garden ~ German type. Y hCn that gar
den is completed the result ~ tile JOINT
efforts II the American Irl> SoeuetN anl
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paryilsc for l1s lovers.
Mrs Frances Clcvcland had remark /
able collection of iris at EatontoNn, y ] /
The largest iris gardens II tEic country /
arc at Cornell.
Color-lnstcad of race is often the /
point Of specialization stressed Mrs /
Frederick Ereyhnghuysen ii Elhcrou,
y j., has an exquisite white garden, ana /
. blue garden Arthur Curt is James. at i
Newport has another beautiful garden
Here IN q scrles 0f shallow pools lined WITH /
blue tile. with blue hydrangcas planted II
the corners, grow btuc aquatic lines. The
pools are hordercd with broken bluc tiles
amid which blooms a low growing dark +
blue veronica. and along all the walks .
larkspur blooms The lovclluess II this +
place can almost be imagined.
Rose gardens fayortc with every
some one on the estate of the late ADMIRAL /
" lard, Nlllowmcrc, Al Ro~!yn L. !
and Prospect Park rose garden Is for the
public pleasure. At Hartford Is he finest
rose garden in the East. but even Oregon
and California have anothing to place
beside the ma agniflccnt Rosc-aic DE HAY
nc-r Paris, which before tie war was onc
ot the hor1 icul1ural wonders 81 tie world
4 private rose garden Of countrywide fame
J. that Of George G. Thomas, Jr, II
Chestnut Hill Pa.
TNTERMYER Has An ORANGERy-
The picturesque estate Of samuel nter-
mver at Clreystonc IS open 10 the public
one day each week Il Is a fine example
OF formal gardening. Of rock gardening.
and. best Of alt, YOU may sec there in
AZ the Morgan place Cragston.
III Highland Falls. dafiodIis and tulips are
scattered II picturesque freedom along
the hIlsides and among the grass.
II YOU love dahllas DR. NJ s. Howe
has q special dahlia garden II Pleasant
vile Tor shrubs there Is the Interesting
garden OF Doubleday Page Il Co at
Garden Cry although our park. are
wealthy IL these. too Al Nan 1ortlandt
Park around he old Van Cortiandt man
sion. is q sunken bulb garden delightful
10 VISIT IA the spring. AzaIeas and rhodo-
are the speclaIlties Of q we'll
known private garden at Rye, while if YOU
gei of At FioWerfeld station j. J.. you
viii be greeted by thousands upon thou
sands Of gladloli, which are the pride OF
the place.
Our climate hardly suits lilies or poppies
and for u large specialized peony Garaen
YOU must 60 as far as Hamilton College
At Clinton, where Prof 4 p Saunders
demonstrates what vivid splendor a
peonys can be- Sill further of is III IN
teresting specialized garden Of clipped
svergreens Walter II. HoneyWels 5 at
u ellesley Mass
Theodore A. Havemeyer president Of
the Horticultural Society, Of New York
nss at Brookville, /. l., unique gardens Of
rare plants that gardeners recognize as
being hardest Of al to grow Nothing
mas been too battling for his experts. Ills
RI.dhower garden is widely known
The finest specialized gardens are
those Of professional growers.
md many beautiful private gardens arc
sept rlgldly to the letter Of Their Maine
3nt we are very lucky b have such gar
lens at hand III our parks, whose colIcc-
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