Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Herb Garden
Sale Opens
Tomorrow
Benefit Event at
Cathedral Till
Christmas

The annual Christmas sale at the
Cottage Herb Garden, Washington
Cathedral Close, for the benefit of
the work of All HalloWs Guild, the
garden guild of the National Cathe-
dral, will open tomorrow and con-
tinue until Christmas Eve.
The sale is being held with the
following patronesses: Mrs. James E.
Freeman. wife of the Bishop OF
Washington; Mrs. Noble c. Powell,
wife of the Dean of Washington,
and the officers of All HalloWS
Guild, including Mrs. John H. Glib
bons, president Mrs. George Wharf,
ton Pepper, first vice president; |
Mrs. Daniel w. Knowlton, second |
vice president, and Mrs. Albert H.
Lucas, recording secretary.
The Christmas sale is under the
direction of the Cottage Herb Gar
den Committee, of which Mrs. Ray
mond L. Wolven is chairman.
Among the members of the commit
tee are Miss Lucy Adee, Miss Helen |
Clifford, Mrs. William Earl Clark, |
Mrs. H. N. Dorman, Miss Roberta |
Grant, Mrs. Phillip H. Frohman,
Mrs James Henderson, Miss Elisa
beth E. Poe, Miss Phyllis Snyder, |
Mrs. Albert Russell and Mrs. Vylla |
Poe Wilson.
Herb Garden Near
Entrance to Bishops Garden.
The Cottage Herb Garden, one
of the most picturesque spots on the
Cathedral Close, is situated near the
Norman Arch entrance to the
Bishops Garden. There in one cor
ner of the temporary baptistery
erected to house the Jordan Font
eventually to be placed within the
Cathedral itself are assembled liv-
Cathedral gardens and greenhouses,
attractive containers of dried herbs
for flavoring and for fragrance, pot
pourriS, lavenderS, English Christ
mas cards and books and many
other things to delight garden
lovers.
Thousands of pilgrims and WASH
ingtonianS after visiting the Cot
tage Herb Garden, have gone away
charmed with its sense of something
different and that real peace which
comes from contact with Mother
Earth and her fruits. The little
herbs in their unique pots, the pot
pourris and lavenders have travelled
wide and far with pilgrims to many
American garden plots and homes,
there to become Cathedral reminders
onS client jptornratorc If tho rotlo
dral story. 1t stirs the imagination
to know that these plants and herbs
are doing their bit in making Amer
lea herb conscious" bringing our
people back to some of the whole
some secrets of the herb garden, a
mainStay of old-fashioned homes.
They have sturdy virtues, these lit
tie herbs, and long histories. At
the Cloisters in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art group may be found
some Of All Hallows Guild herbs.
They are at Wakefield, George
Washington's birthplace too, and at
Kenmore in old Fredericksburg; and
they appear in other historic gar
oens, successors to the herbs of yes
terday which used to glorify these
spots in days of the past.
Many Well Known Herbs
May Be Obtained At Garden.
Visitors to the Cottage Herb Gar
den find the roll call of the herbs
there symphony Of natures graces.
There Is rosemary, flower of men,
DRY; basil, the kings plant, lemon
balm and its ld-fashioned rela-
tive, lemon verbena; sweet laven-
der, the lowly camomile, gray-green
sage leaves, thyme, beloved of
fairies and of bees, and the emblem
of courage and the sWeet-scented
leaves of sweet marjoram, the "ami-
able herb which, as every good
housewife knows, has a multitude of
uses.
For those who make this an herb
Christmas there are the living
plants of these herbs and other his
torlc plans in the close such as
the famous ivy brought from Cam
terbury Cathedral score of years
ago and planted in Washington
Cathedral Close, and the Dolly
Madison lockwood, grown from
sprig of lockwood in the bouquet
carried by that vivacious lady on
her husbands inaugural day.
And for those who anticipate the
forthcoming visit of Queen Eliza
beth of England to the United
States next spring there is the self
same pot-pourri mixture of fragrant
English flowers which her majesty
uses in her rose jars and in great
open bowls in the royal palaces.