Evening star., 1928-06-17
BY MARGARET n. DOWNING.

b1 MAkOANEI ~. DuNNtN0.
The Grace Coolidge chrysanthemum
has withstood the test of two seasons
and is prominently advertised in cur
rent florists catalogues. But of the
many new roses and various flowers
named for the inmates OF the White
House this is a distinguished exception.
The President Taft rose survived about
10 years. but now none but exceedingly
careful and provident gardeners can
show this glowing flower in their beds
Mrs Harding. II will be remembered,
attempted to have a corner of the rose
garden between the west wing of the
mansion and the executive Offices filled
with roses named for Presidents and
their families. The Mary Washington
still holds dominant place, but this
splendid climber propagated at Mount
Vernon by the great patriot had been
an inmate of the White House gardens
for nearly century. 1t had dwindled
10 a punv bush when it was transfer
red about 20 years ago to the west
ern plot. under Mrs. Roosevelts direc-
ton. In the Spring exhibit of the
American Rose Society held In Phila-
deiphis in 1921 an exquisite FINK flower
with a deep yellow center was called
the Florence Killing Harding rose. A
tul dozen were planted in The garden
with much ceremony in that early
Summer. Not one remains and none
have been offered for sale for the past
five years. So, too. with the Princess
Alice, and of several named for men,
hers of the Wilson family. A fine
cream climbing rose was called the
Mary Wallace for the daughter of the
late Secretary of Agriculture, and that,
like the Grace Coolidge chrysanthemum.
EtI TfHF Na2
may be admired in many places in and
about washington Mrs. Coolidge.
reared in the siren climate Of Vermont.
IL more partial to sturdier flowers than
the rose and her lovely name5ake
among the popular Autumn flowers
now fourishes in many Vermont
gardens, notably in that of the At
toTney General and Mrs. Sargent al
Ludlow
The Canadian Minister, Mr.. Vincent
Massey. is an ardent oxford man and
In. Massey scholarships to Cambridge
recently awarded at the American Uni
versity are the gift of his father, made
ecme 25 years ago when the institution
vas Just beginning its activities. These
endoHments are. however. what is
known as travelling scholarships and
the institution in receipt of them can
place the honor men who obtain them
in any English institution. In the
present instance. the recipients. both
OF Canadian ancestry. Mr.. A. F. Wynne
Flumpetre will study economics ar
Cambridge. while the other. which was
won by Mr. Morley John Campbell
IaKieT will matricuiate for the highest
degrees in physics and mathematics
The elder Massey was generous patron
Of institutions of learning. especially
those which lacked endowment for their
increasing work. The late Bishop John
r. Hurst. who was the first president
end in all essentials the founder OF
this Methodist foundation. was well
known in the Dominion of Canada and
made many tours Of it en0eavoring to
interest It's people In the project.
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Count Louis de Eartiges. who has
been counselor under three French
Ambassadors. M Daesci1ner. Senator
EeTenger and NJ Paul Claudei. is the
grandson Of the French Minister, Count
Eugene De Sartiges, who was the first
envoy sent 10 this Capital by Napoleon
III and wi1o served here from 1851
1859. Count de Sartiges has without
count rendered a valuable service TO
hiS country IN aiding Mr.. Leighton H.
Blood. well known newspaper man
and a former editor of the American
Legion Monthly 10 enlist in the much
written and much filmed Foreign Le-
glcn. Mr.. Blood was with the American
Expeditionary Force from the time #
landed until the aru1astice, and he had
I'm addition visited many French frontier
posts in Africa and had become free
-ith ambition TO serve In the Legion
End write his experiences as truth yg
the fiction on which the American
public has latterIy been fed. Count de
EaFt1ges aided by the military attache,
Gen DunOnt. made the way smooth
for Mr.. Blood and the scribe has Just
completed his service and is beginning
IN publish the results, He was with the
zth Battalion and has witnessed some
thrilling sights though not along the
lines taken by British novelists and the
film folk at Hollywood The French
Foreign Legion is al the present time
according 10 the American Legion
editor. filed with officers of the ImperisI
German army. VINO find in ii the only
way ~ Use their military training and
~ hope for advancement, A recruiting
station mas been opened in their behalf
81 hetZ IN the past three years Count
be S2Yfages and his colleagues are
naturally interested in the reaction OF
flle public In this country To the actual