Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
TOUR OF GARDENS
SET FOR TUESDAY
Chevy Chase Benefit Exhibits
viii Open Many Displays
for First Time.

Tuesday, when the Chevy Chase Garden
Club of Maryland will hold its first
annual garden tour for the benefit of
the Montgomery County Social Service
League In case of inclement weather,
the tour will be postponed until We'd
nesday..
The date has been set late in the
month so that the wonderful rose
and peony displays of this neighbor-
hood, as well as the early Summer
ANIMALS and perennials, will be at their
most luXurient period.
The tour has been planned by Mrs.
Richard Fay Jackson and her COM
mittee with the veiw of providing gar
den enthusiasts with complete pam
Drama of garden possibilities. Such
show places as Abremont, the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin;
the William S. Corby place. at Chevy
Chase Circle and Woodend the estate
of Capt. and Mrs. Chester Wells, will be
the high spots" of the tour, while
equally interesting will be a number
of smartly planned, smaller gardens,
Astounding in suggestions and inspira-
ton for every amateur gardener.
Historic Homes on Tour.
Historic interest of an enthralling
sort is implied in visits to Hayes, the
170-year- Colonial manor of Mr.. and
Mrs, G. Thomas Dunlop, and to Brook
Farm, the quaint Revolutionary home
of DIR. and Mrs Frank Shultz.
Eighteenth century memories, both
grim and gay, hover around these old
homes. The galleried house at Brook
Farm still bears the marks of enemy
cannon, while back of Hayes Manor,
in sunny corner of the strawberry
garden, is the grave of ParSon AleXan-
der Williamson, the rock-ribbed old
Tory who built the mansion and later
was unfrocked because of his royalist
1eaningS He spent his remaining days
among the roses and lilacs of Hayes,
then a 700-acre estate named after
the Hayes of County Kent in England,
and cheered h.; spirit at the same
time by drinking few hearty toasts to
King George.
After his death the estate was pur-
chased in 1882 by James Dunlop,
young Scotchman newly arrived in
this country. Six generations of Dun
lopS now have lived at Hayes. Like
Parson Williamson, they have preferred
to remain near their home in death
and to slumber peacefully in the family
burying ground, a few hundred feet
from toe mansion.
Has Stately Trees.
Stately trees are among the chief
beauties of Hayes. A gnarled and
blasted oak of giant size, completely
draped with wisteria, breaks the wide
sweep of lawn fronting the house. The
silver and pale green of young birches
contrast with a background of dark
spruces, while the seldom seen tulip
poplars drop blossoms of, green and
yellow. The Hayes flower garden is
old fashioned, with an abundance of
roses, lilacS and peonies
A remarkable scheme of tree plant
ing that in only seven years has trans
formed landscape is illustrated on the
home estate of Mr.. and Mrs. George
p. McCabe, on Brookville road.
Mrs. McCabe has planned her tree
planting both for immediate effect and
with an eye to the future. Quick grow
ing Lombardy poplars outline the
borders of the estate, but directly in
side this line are sturdy black oaks
which will take the place of the pop
lars in few years. Artistic groupings
of silver birches and weeping willows
accent the rolling contours of the land
and provide setting for a lily pool.
Spruce Row a long avenue of these
symmetrical evergreens, and groupings
OF fine old lockwood also figure in the
plan Of the McCabe place.
go PeOny Varieties.
Peonies also are a speciality Of Mrs.
McCabe, and peony devotees will find
more than so varieties of this gorgeous
blossom in her garden. 1t is expected
that they win be at the height of their
blooming period at the time of the
tour
The largest and most remarkable
rose garden in Washington, that of
Mr.; ad Mrs. Whitman Cross, will be
included in the tour. There are lit
orally acres of roses Of every type in
this marvellous garden. although it is
probable that Mr.. Cross is a bit partial
TO the hundreds of hybrid tea roses
which he has developed. Another
fayorite of Mr.. Cross is his white Mer-
maid climbing rose with blossoms four
and five inches across. The rose COW
cred pergolas and walks of the Cross
place extend for hundreds Of feet.
There also is an exquisite formal
garden, designed by Rose Greeley, with
gray stone walls and a shining pool
and fountain accenting the nlassed col
orings of ANIMALS and perennials.
Grows Wild Flowers.
Another Rose Greeley garden will be
seen at the home of Mr. and Mrs Al
fred Fowler where stone and marble
copings, low box hedges and a higher
AA1"blAOAh AACdSE LBuAG III lllE uSSlSn.
The plan for this garden provides an
interesting rotation in color schemes,
completely Transforming the garden
from month to month. The exception
TO the plan is found in one lovely cor
ner which Mrs Fowler calls the little
white garden" Here every blossom,
from early Spring TO late in the Fall.
Is of white
To many the most fascinating spot
he n ne mir
wild flower rock garden Of Mrs Hugh
Southgate. With almost endless pa
thence and skill, Mrs Southgate has
succeeded in nurturing scores Of deli
cate and rare wild flowers so that they
bloom gayly. Among these fran blooms
are wild dwarf iris and primroses, wild
hepatica white violets and the little
mountain johnny jump-up, as well as
many TO which it is difficult TO put
names
LiveabIensess and beauty are COM
bined in the gardens of Greenacre,
the home Of Mrs. r. M. Kaufman A
charming little trellised teahouse oc-
cupies a corner Of the grounds and
opens on a tagged terrace furnished in
Summary fashion. Hospitality is the
keynote Of every part Of the Green
acre grounds. Comfortable lounging
chairs lurk in all sorts Of spots, invit-
ing the visitor TO an hour of siesta
All Of this outdoor furniture Is sturdy
and is painted pale green. Many gay
blossoms, rare shrubs and a mirror
like pool all add their beauty to
Greenacre.
One Slave Cabin.
The glamour of the past hoverS over
the quaint little slave cabin on Brook
vile Farm, which Mrs. Frank Hood
Shultz has fitted up for afternoon teas
and Summer entertaining.
All the proper antiques of the period
have been used by Mrs. Shultz in fur
nishing the cabin. Copper cooking
things are on the hearth while hooked
rrinc IA icht1,rarL rr,nilfs and fiirdrnd-