Evening star., 1928-05-27

NEW YORK. May 26.---Among the
attractive fetes planned by society folk
of Long Island are the garden days
which viii be given for the benefit of
the Wayside Home School for Girls.
The schedule for these exhibitions,
which opens next month. includes every
Thursday. Prominent folk receive the
public into their gardens and many Of
the showplaces are thus devoted to this
cause.
June 5. which is Tuesday, by the way,
the gardens of Mrs Herbert Pratt and
Mrs. Harold Pratt will be shown. They
are especially lovely just now in the iris
season. The iris garden OF Mrs Her
bert Pratt hangs over Long Island
Sound. One sees it through veil Of
willow trees down a hillside of salmon
pink, rose-yellow and orange azaleas.
with a background OF water. 1t sug-
gests a hanging garden beside an
Italian lake.
The iris garden Of Mrs. Harold Pratt
rs entirely different. as 1t has been
planted in a wood and one walks
through thousands Of blossoms.
June 7, the gardens of Westhrook.
the estate of Mrs. w. Bayard Cutting
in Oakdale. will be exhibited. A week
later the country places OF Mrs. Thomas
Williams In Lawrence. Long Island. and
Mr.. and Mrs, George w. Wickersham
will be on display.
Three Oakes, the country place of
Mrs. H. Van Rensselaer, Kennedy. viii
be open June 81 with those of Mrs.
Ralph Peters, jr., and Mrs. Albert M.
Briggs. both of Garden City. Exhibi-
tion OF the estate OF Mr. and Mrs.
Henry de Forest In Cold Spring Har-
Dor will close the month. Other gar
den displays are being planned for July.
Another outstanding event of June
will be the garden fete at Greentree,
the country estate OF Mrs. Payne Whit
ney in Manhasset, Long Island, on June
g. 1t will be TO assist the combined
milk funds of the Family Welfare AS
sociation of Nassau County, Inc There
will be a big attendance of society folk.
Mrs. whitney and her daughter. Mrs.
Charles shipnlan Payson, will be as
sisted by Mrs Harry l. Nicholson, Mrs.
corneiieus N. Bliss, Mrs. Courtlandt
Dixon Barnes Mrs Albert zabriskie
Gray. Mrs. Oliver IBclin, Mrs, James
Ayerell Clark, Mrs r. Penn Smith, jr /,
Mrs Joseph e. Davis. Mrs George
Whitney Mrs. Fulton Cutting, Mrs.
Russell Doubleday and Mrs. Allston
Flagg.
There viii be on sale pedisreed dogs.
farm animals, blrds, old American
lamps and furniture as we'll as handi-
work that will serve as ornaments for
the home. In addition there will be
offered fresh vegetables, plants and
garden flowers from adjoining estates.
An interesting feature OF the afternoon
will be the showing OF motion pictures
made at the Grand National Race run
in Liverpool, England, this Spring.
MFR. and Mrs. Willard Vinton King
have announced the engagement oi
their daughter. Miss Mary Spineer
King, 10 c. Shelby Carter. Miss King
after graduating at 6hipley School
Bryn Mawr studied for two years al
Barnard College. Her father was presl-
dent OF the Columbia Trust 90. and Is
now chairman OF the advisory board
Of the American Exchange Irving
Trust Co. and a trustee Of Columbia.
Her mother was Mary 8. Van Beuren
Of the old Fourteenth street family,
MIR. Garter Is a son ~ Mrs. Anna
Huntington Carter and the late Charles
Todd Carter Of New Orleans, On his
fathers side he Is A descendant OF