Evening star., 1921-05-29

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Mrs Warren G. Harding. has a
private garden. the existence OF
which is seldom suspected by
the thousands OF visitors who are
now permitted TO enter the front
doors of the White House and who
peek through or over the back yard
hedge and iron fence. Here Mrs
Harding spends many happy hours
occasionally entertaining personal
friends there Through this garden
the President frequently walks in
going from the residential section OF
the White House to his Offices in the
west wing.
The White House gardens are kept
in the finest artistic condition by
Charles Henlock. private gardener TO
the mistress Of the White House. who
Ave years. and for the last fifteen has
been in full charge of the White
House grounds and propa eating gar
dens. He came directly to WASH
ington from England. where he had
been employed under the late Archi-
bald barron. Superintendent of the
Royal Horticultural Society gardens
at ChisWick.
The gardens, located south Of the
White House. which were known as
the Colonial Gardens" of Mrs. Eoose
welt. were originally designed and
planted by the late George II. Brown
then landscape architect in the ofhce
of public buildings and grounds.
They were entirely remodeled IN the
fall of 1913. and are divided INTO
two sections. known as the cast ana
west gardens. The remodeled cast
garden resulted from the cooperation
Of the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and
Mr. Henlock. The planting of the
herbaceous borders and the four panel
beds was personally supervised by
Mrs. Wilson, who. trowel in hand,
actually planted many Of her favorite
flowers. Her excellent taste for
blending colors was demonstrated in
the beautiful and artistic results
Some of the erergreens and shrubs
used in the east garden are: Juniperus
Virginiana glauca, Robinson abor-
vitae. oSmanthuS. illicifolius. euor!
mus japonica. kalmics. althea ana
Roca setegera. The herbaceous plants
used were hollyhocks. fox gloves
pansies. Japanese and German iris.
The plan for the west garden was
/ prepared by George Burnap. and mere
the design is entirely different, II ne,
i ing Mrs Wilson's desire to avoid
similarity. On the righthand side
| is the walk leading to the Presidents
Offices The archways are OF priNet
! with a row of standard roses on either
side Towards the west are TWO very
/ fine Irish yews. Latticework between
the garden and the Presidents ofnces
| is planted with climbing roses, which
hang over from the pergola. Some OF
1 the varieties of roses in this garden are:
Eillarneys, Antoine Revoire. Duchess
de Brabant and Lady Hillington. MIS-
Wilson also supervised the planting
! of this garden.
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| John w. Weeks, Secretary OF War
! is the only graduate Of the Annapolis
Naval Academy ever to hold cabinet
position and he comes from a famous
class at Annapolis, 1881. which is plan
| ming to hold its fortieth reunion at
the Naval Academy next month.
j Secretary Weeks claims also the
i distinction of being the first graduate
J Of ANNAPOLIS to become a member OF
the. United States Senate. But another
/! one OF his classmates followed his
| coed example and is now in the SEN
ate-Scnator Joseph I. Weller or
/! Maryland. Both weeks and Weller re-
/ signed from the Navy after snort
! service
| Admiral Henry 7. B. Wilson. COM
manding the Atlantic fleet. is also
+, member of the same class.
Admiral Urio. ranking officer of the
Japanese navy, the only iiVlng Jap
ancse graduate of Annapolis, and Sec
rotary Weeks were in the same class
section at the academy. in the same
gun crew and the same mess. They
have kept up their friendship ever
| since. Admiral Trio is making the
long trip from Japan to greet his old
messmate at the fortieth reunion.
John Smith" is very common
! American name-but not in the
Sixty-seventh Congress. where he is
conspicuously absent. When Repre-
! sentative Addison T. Smith OF Idaho
came to Congress nine years ago he
| found there were five Smiths in the
House and five more in the Senate.
In the House were two from Michigan