Evening star., 1921-02-20

lated in New York and in Washing
ton.
Berlin has a large and growing
this country is still technically at
war with the imperial German gov
ernment which passed out in No
vember. 1918. Many Washingtonians
are are nndlns agreeabe quarters in the
much speculation is rife as to the
identity of the ambassador whom
President Harding will send to mend
the broken relations. Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Dunning are leaders in the
cplonS and others we'll known are
mat commander Beehler, so long at
the Naval Observatory here. and
Lieut.: Commander Cuthbert, who was
attached to the navigation bureau
lust before the war. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bbuh!lngton Wilson are sojourning in
ana Dresden. and Mr.. and Mrs. S. B.
Sonser: students in music, medicine
ana philosophy are arriving from this
country and conditions socially are
Iuite desirable, say recent letters from
IEose hundreds of faithful friends
OF the late William Mckinley who
wear pink carnation on his birth
DAY anniversary and other days as
soclated with his memory are una
ware that the flower so greatly be-
loved by the twenty-fifth President
had its American origin in the old
Plerce Arboretum, in kennett Square,
Chester county, Pa. In fact all about
hennett Square, famous to readers of
American classics through the magic
pictures of Bayard Taylor, whose
nome was in the old city, is what is
known to foriculturists as the carna-
tlon belt. President McKinley's pref
erence in the numerous family of the
fragrant blossoms was the Grace
Darling" a vivid rose color and as
odorous as the old-fashioned musk
pink first produced by florists of
Chester county. George Pierce and his
brother-in-law. Humphrey Marshall,
may be called the fathers of American
botany and in the interests of the
scientific rearing of plants they be-
gan the first American arboretum in
the old Pierce place. Longwood, now
the country seat of Pierre S. Dupont.
All the many botanical gardens in this
country, including the extensive and
attractive one maintained in Wash
ington by the government, are Off
shoots of this. The present owner
has carefully preserved every one of
the ancient paintings of the Pierces,
who continued in possession Of the
estate from 1897 until about fifty
years ago. The labyrinths of box are
not only the oldest and most luxurious
on American soil, but the most intri-
cate in design. Those at Mount YER
non are more than a century later.
The splendid old Greek sun dial which
Marshall brought to Longwood in
1925 still keeps guard over the sunny
glade leading to the flower plot.
For garden which is more than six
score years. it is odd that the White
House Park possesses no sun dial,
and a pleasant rumor comes that the
American Academy in Rome intends
soon to make up this deficiency by
presenting one of the very oldest
dials known to the world. one which
was possibly brought to Rome by one
of the conquering generals of the
Punic wars. Egypt has the Oldest sun
dials in the world, but it is just as
easy to buy the crown Jewels as to
get one of the specimens owned by
the Ptolemies. But in Rome anti
quarians have very ancient examples
of telling time done in bronze, mel
lowed by time and very ornate. Some
are set on short monoliths, elaborate
ly chiseled in NEUROLOGICAL themes
and epigrams. Any of the knolls in
the south grounds of the White
House would be a suitable place for a
sun dial or in the Dutch garden be-
tween the executive offices and the
mansion proper.
Although Albert Bacon Fall has five
years more to serve as senator from
New Mexico, his friends believe that
his burning zeal for certain adjust
ments in public land. and particularly
for a more equitable policy in the
arid belt, woul lead him to resign
from the upper house of the legisla-
ture TO rthe more subordinate post in
the executive branch. The Falls are