Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
TOUR OF GARDENS
SCHEDULED MAY 26
Chevy Chase Body Is Spon-
soring Nearby Montgom-
cry Pilgrimage.

A number Of charming country
places never before opened to the pub
lie will be included in the first annual
garden pilgrimage, sponsored by the
Chevy Chase Garden Club Of Mary
land, now planned for Tuesday, May rs.
In case of inclement weather the pill
grimage will be postponed to the fol-
lowing day, Wednesday, May 81.
The garden tour Is being so planned
as to include such marvellous show
places as Abremont, the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin; the
william s. Corby place at Chevy Chase
Circle, and the estate Of Capt and Mrs.
Chester Wells.
Memories Of Eighteenth Century.
Historic interest of a fascinating sort
will be implied in the visits to Hayes,
the 170-year- Colonial manor of Mr..
and Mrs. C. Thomas Dunlop, and to
Brock Farm, the quaint Revolutionary
home of DR.. and Mrs. Frank Hood
Shuttle. Eighteenth-century memories,
both grim and gay, hover around these
old homes. The galleried house at
Brook Farm still bears the mark Of
enemy cannon, while back Of Hayes
Manor in a sunny corner Of the straw
berry garden is the grave Of Parson
Alexander Williamson, the rock ribbed
old Tory who built the mansion and
was later unfrocked because Of his
royalist leanings.
He sulked out his remaining days
among the roses and lilacs of Hayes,
then 700-acre estate named after the
Hayes of County Kent in England.
chased, in 1882, by James Dunlop,
SnntRhnnan
Six generations of Dunlops have now
lived at Hayes. Like ParSon William
son, they have preferred to remain near
their home in death and slumber
peacefully in the family burying plot
few hundred feet from the mansion.
Its stately trees are among the chief
beauties of Hayes. A gnarled and
draped with wistaria, breaks the wide
sweep Of lawn fronting the house. The
silver and pale green of young birches
contrast with background Of great
dark spruces, while the seldom seen
tulip poplars show exotic green and
yellow blossoms. The Hayes flower
garden is properly old fashioned, with
an abundance of roses, lilacs and
peonies, while lilies of the valley and
tan nag lilies peep out at every corner.
Old Slave Cabin Remains.
Brook Farm is that great rarity, q
real farm almost in the city. One
of the old slave cabins remains on the
place and Mrs. Shultz has furnished
1t cleverly with the proper antiques Of
the period. Copper cooking things are
on the hearth, while hooked rugs,
patchwork quilts and hundred-year- old
even coonskin nailed to the wall.
Tea will be served in this cabin as
well as in the Shultz home on the day
of the pilgrimage.
Quite as engroSsing to many visitors
as the Summer flower garden Of Brook
Farm will be the sleek barnyard popu-
lation owned by DR.. and Mrs. Shultz.
Rare pheasants and wild ducks are
being successfully raised, also some
aristocrats of the poultry world with
blue-black combs and silky white, fur
like down instead of feathers. There
is a huge turkey gobbler named Joe,
who Is no paciflst, two beautiful horses,
a Shetland pony, and last but not least,
Susie Lee, a very large and very pink
and-white pig. Susie, as a very tiny
pigling, was given to one of the Shultz
boys and this humane-minded family
have never made up their minds to let
Susie go the way Of all pork.
An attractive feature of the tour will
smartly planned smaller gardens that
abound in suggestions and inspiration
for every amateur gardener.
Has Miniature Nursery.
One of the most striking gardens Of
this group is that of Col. and Mrs.
L. C. Duncan at their Bradley lane
home. Col. Duncan has completely
planned and executed the entire garden,
including the cement garden furnish
ings and fountains which accent the
handspring scheme. Narrow brick
walks aid in securing a lengthy per-
spective, while an amusing little jap
anese rock garden with tiny bridges and
pagodas occupies one far corner, an
other one being taken up by a minia-
ture nursery, where the colonel raises
his own trees from the seed.
Another instance of the value of per-
sonal planning, although on a different
scale, is seen at Woodend, where Mrs.
Chester Wells has taken the natural
contours of her grounds into considera-
ton in working out scheme Of garden
units. F1owering trees and shrubs are
planted at the edge of the forest to
form sort of woodland garden at the
border Of the wide lawns. A rose gar
den and rock garden are other fea-
lures, while the evergreen court shows
a restful severity OF beauty relieved
only by the purple tones of flag lilies
and lavender. A small artificial lake
is also in course of being beautified
and will soon show a fairylike contrast
of water lilies with weeping willow.