Evening star., 1926-10-10

| the youngest and least experienced
captain in the group.
When Mr.. Robert Swami Sturte-
want Of Wellesley. Mass, was married
| during the early days of September to
Miss Margaret Coolidge. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Coolidge of Milton
| there was a quickening Of interest all
| over the country where iris is grown
| for he has been the secretary of the
American Iris Society ever since its
organization. The iris garden at
Wellesley is one of the reasons
equally with the fine college and
| other famous institutions, that SO
many tourists choose a route through
that quaint little city. The iris is a
later bloom in Wellesley than on the
Potomac. but the Sturtevants have
learned to prolong the blooming sea-
son almost to Autumn, and the ar
rangement of whites into pale blue,
then the deeper shades to the royal
purple. make a patch of color on the
lawn that is comparable to the pinks
and reds and whites when the roses
bloom in Potomac Park. Miss Cool
idge who is distant kinswoman of
the President, has shared her hus-
bands devotion to the iris. and with
him she will be connected with the
Lowthorpe School Of Landscape Archl-
lecture, recently founded for the bene-
fit of women in Groton, Mass. MIR.
Sturtevant is to he the president of
the school, and his bride will continue
her studies under him. Her former
home in Milton has a beautiful garden
of bulbs, and she has written enter
tainingIy and profltably on garden
themes.
DR. William Saunders of the Cana
dian experimental farm at Ottawa
has just been awarded the gold medal
Of the American Rose Society for the
best new rose, the Agnes, put on the
market during the current year. DR..
Saunders successful experiment in
rose culture has been In progress for
some years, and the rose Agnes" has
been under his eye since 1906. 1t is
a deep yellow climbing rose, the chief
charm of which is it's early blooming
and ability to retain it's color against
the sun and it's rapid and sturdy
growth. Planted in profusion in the
renowned rose farms at Fort Stanley,
near the Canadian capital. the "Ag-
mes" received enthusiastic indorse-
ment for first honors during the re-
cent exchange OF visits between the
American Rose Society members and
those of the Dominion. Almost a
quarter of a mile Of hedge was golden
with blossoms. while the deep, rich
foliage was reminiscent of that old
favorile. the keystone or Miccafallo
rose. Blooming in Ottawa in mid
June. the rose would undoubtedly
come to perfection in this climate
early in May or in mild season, in
April. thus superseding the Empress
of China, the first to blossom here
oh ofaI
many bushes to American rosarians,
and some will soon come to the ex-
perimental farm at Arlington. This
successful rosarian is the father of
DR.. Charles Saunders, the discoverer
OF Marquis wheat. an achievement
which won for him supreme honors
among the competitors for the wheat
growers prize some Is years ago.
Mr. Gordon Wordsworth. grandson
of the poet, has been receiving with
kindness the scores of American
guests who, in touring the lake coun-
try Of England, invariably pause at
Grasmere. Mr.. Wordsworth is the
only son Of the poets youngest child
and namesake, William Wordsworth.
and he makes his home all through
the year at Grasmere. He always
takes a cordial interest In the Gras-
mere dialect plays, many of them
compiled from the writings of the lau-
reate and some of them the work Of
his father. Miss Charlotte Maria
Fletcher, who is the great-grand-
daughter Of that Eliza Fletcher friend
Of poets and often their adviser, and
frequently alluded to as the beautiful
Mrs. Fletcher, has been conducting
the Grasmere plays. the performances
hn 10 ofb
Lowfold. not quarter of a mile from
the Wordsworth cottage. The beau
tiful Mrs. Fletcher, whose descendants
preserve letters written her by Long.
fellow and by Wordsworth, Hartley,
Coleridge, Arnold. Charles Dickens
and Thackeray, was the wife of the
rector of Grasmere, who figures so
often in the Wordsworth poems. The
father Of Miss Charlotte Maria F'letch-
er was the third in line to hold this
clerical holding, and was rector at
Grasmere from 1878 to 1898 After
his death, leaving no sons in the min
istry. the venerable church was taken
over by new rector from the diocese
of London Mr.. Gordon Wordsworth
Is not literary in any sense except in
appreciating all good things, either in
poetry or drama or general writing.
The American Ambassador and Mrs.
Albert Bigelow Houghton have been
most interested observers of the trials
Of the sheep dogs at Tring, the finest
display of this kind in all of England.
and held in the rolling country about
mile beyond the beautiful estate of
Lord Rothschild and under his aus
pices. All the sheep dogs in the coun.
try are registered and given a chance
to show their prowess. Hundrsds of
sheep are set free in the hills and the
dogs re comma nded to drive them
down to the plain and through two
gaps of hurdles and then into a mar
row gate which represents the en-.
trance to the fold. The fascina ton to
the spectators. and they are seated on
well raised platforms at the descent
of the hills and in plain View of the
gate. is to observe the essential diff
ference between dog nature md sheep
nature and the Willingness of the
canine TO rely on the superior wisdom
Of the shepherd
Capt. and Nine. Dimitri Ivanenko
nave given horseback riding an added