Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-18
GARDEN CLUB AIDS
| ARBORETUM BILLS
Pledges Support to Measure
/ for Purchase of Mount
! Hamilton Site.

~
g. The Garden Club of America, with
anore than 5000 members throughout
.Athe country, was pledged yesterday
|. TO support the Pepper and Luce bills
Il in Congress for purchase of the
Mount Hamilton site for national
fNarboretum.
!, Three Speakers, including the ma
!: tional president of the society, Mrs.
, Samuel Sloan of New York City,
! spoke in strong support of the pro-
( posal, and urged that all persons in
terested throw their influence behind
the legislation. The occasion was the
first meeting of the season of the
7 committee of the National Capital of
!; the Garden Club, at the home of Mrs.
Frank 3. Noyes, chairman, 1899 YER
mont avenue.
!, Three Stress Need.
Need of the arboretum not only for
Washington, but also for the Nation,
was stressed by Mrs. Sloan, Mrs.
Noyes and Mrs. Francis King, a
founder of the Garden Club and dis
tfnguished author on gardening, who
presented a delightful illustrated lee
ture on her own garden at Alma,
Mich.
Z Describing the proposed arboretum
rs great monument Mrs. Sloan
! reported she had had a conference
: with Director Lord of the Bureau of
the Budget in regard to the pending
legislation. Gen. Lord had said that
the amount involved was "tremen
dous," Mrs. Sloan indicated. But she
had told him. she said, that the Gov
eminent should at least purchase the
ground at the present time, before it
is too late. and develop it afterward.
T. The land, Mrs. Sloan said, was par
d. firi, 10 1N- al fAI 70
with lowland along the river for wa
. ter gardens and highland farther
back for trees.
I'VE want the arboretum to help
our scientists here in Washington"
; said Mrs. Sloan, I'VE want it to help
Sall our people. 1t will be a great
, monument, at the Nations Capital,
for the American people" The scien-
lists in the Department of Agricul-
tture, Mrs. Sloan said, were doing the
: biggest work of its kind in the world,
: and We're in need of an adequate
,arboretum for their workshop.
Asks National Interest.
/ The entire Nation. from Maine to
california, Mrs. Sloan said. should be
=. crested in the development and
4 beSs- flying" of the National Capital.
+She pr Used Mrs. Moves for her activ-
, :ity here in the interests. not only
! of the arboretum, but in connection
q with the work of the Fine Arts Com
mission.
7, Speaking of the Importance of
early action in the arboretum move
ment, Mrs. ~Noyes said it would be
"A great blow to. the District of Co
: lumbia to lose the arboretum, and
that the opportunity was now greater
than ever before to obtain it, For
% years." she said, the scientists of
tthe Department of Agriculture have
had no place to demonstrate the re-
suits of their scientific work"
2 Mrs King praised the whole move
1nent for Identification of Washington
,4and declared it the patriotic duty of
Sail Americans to interest ourselves
in this plan" The influence of the
work which has been done by the
I Fine Arts Commission in Washington
has permeated to London, Mrs. King
said, reporting that she had intima-
lions that a movement was on foot
in the capital of the British Empire
to create a commission similar to the
Zine Arts Commission here. She felt
4 he arboretum would be a vital factor
in carrying out the plan for the
National Capital.
Shows Garden Views.
with a series of more than so colored
stereopticon slides of her own garden
sat Alma, Mich, and an informal ad-
dress describing the joys and glory
of gard ening.
IAN eye to see, memory or a
notebook to retain, a mind and an
ina gination to spin fresh dreams in
flowers and foliage" said Mrs. King,
ana you have all the vital requisites
of good flower gardening. No visits
to gardens, public or private, can be
paid by those sincerely devoted to
this rare and lovely art, without the
constant exercise of this faculty of
observation; and no garden, l main
tain, large or small, rich or humble,
but is worth visit. 1t is true that
the main good we get from the see
ing of poor gardens, must be ex-
pressed by a negative-we learn thus
how not to do ii. On the other hand,
it is my fixed belief that from every
garden we may see, as from every
human being we meet, we may get
that which is of value to ourselves"
1t was the first time Mrs. King had