Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

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| favorites in Washington gardens, the
J Cardinal and My Maryland. - Mrs
J Francis Scott Key" deemed by many
/ rose growers the finest deep red rose
= which has been offered to commerce
| by an American. being large and fuii
! with pyramids of luscious petals OF
| pyramidal shape. from a pinktsh cen
! ter, is also a Cook production. II is
| not prolific bloomer, however, and
| TO obtain a bouquet of these several
! dozen bushes would be necessary
| For 60 wears Mr. Cook has led the
| hortiCulturistS about this section and
| his exploits are viewed with local
| pride He has acres of climbing roses
| and trelliseS where some of the rareSt
/ blooms may be admired through the
warm season. The new rose, Mrs. r..
NJ. Gilmer. Is a yellow monthly hybrid
tea and 1t will be exhibited for the
first time at the meeting of the Amer
lean Rose Society, to be held in this
city in May.
Henry Ford's supreme production
is coming in for much praise as the
various reports of those military com
manders whose duty it was to flank
rear attacks of the enemy duFinE the
World War are beginning to be gen
orally read. In fact. Mr. Ford Contem
plates producing a book in which his
Tin Lizzie's' part in winning the
war for the Allies will be displayed
statistically and supported by official
figures. For instance, that British
army which crossed Persia in order to
invade Mesopotamia and the Turkish
domains adjacent could never have
carried their troops, ammunition and
necessary equipment across the
passes had 1t not been for the stanch
cheaper type of the machine so tamil
lar on country roads. Many British
generals in mellow mood toast the
genial manufactures and drink his
health ferVently as the man who won
victory for the army which wrested
Palestine and Turkey in Asia from
the Mussulmans. All of which seems
to please the quiet gentleman who has
hitherto cared so little for war and
for any praise which comes to him in
martial garb. Arrays of figures show
ing how many French planes and
French equipment generally were
used by the A. f. r. have been widely
published. and this record of how eff
ciently Ford and his products served
the allies in all parts of the contested
territory will make an interesting and
most valuable study.
Ger House in London from the fam
lily which has held it since the six
teenth century to a group of ambi-
tious clubwomen who propose to
found a feminine army and navy
club cannot but arouse intense inter
est all over this country. The Earl
Spencer who built the old mansion
was the friend and patron of Shake
speare and. what affects Americans
more closely. he took over the cause
of the Washington family and pro
Vided them with a shelter when they
were evicted from Sulgrave Manor
1t was the son of this benevolent earl
who furnished the money for young
John and Lawrence Washington, who
had gotten into trouble with the Puri
tan forces. TO cross the ocean and
take up land grants in Virginia.
Though the Washington family was
at that time living in poverty and
obscurity in Northamptonshire, the
immigrants maintained the state and
circumstance of gentlemen through
Earl Spencer's generosity, and they
were at once numbered among the
landed gentry of Virginia, John get
ting, in 1868, a fine river acreage on
the Potomac in what is now West
moreland County and where he built
the illustrious Wakefield Manor. The
present Earl Spencer has felt the
heavy taxes to such a. degree that he
was compelled to sell his fine resi-
dence, known in London's social world
for 800 years as Spencer House and
one of the stateliest buildings in st.
James lane.
Lord Cheylesmore recently sold his
mansion near Spencer House, and
for club quarters, also. London is at
present engaged in deadly conflict
as to clubs, the old conservative or.
foundations contending that the pres
ent members wish to turn them into
what are virtually merely semi-pri
vate restaurants. The Army and