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Public and Miss Joanna Public to
crowd you of the old herring bone
brick and stone-flagged paths. almost
onto your newest and most prodi-
giously tall and brilliant tulips, or
even against the sacred arms of
Great-great-grand Bluenose's
ancient lockwood hedges? Would you,
even If you had had a garden only for
a few years, and were just beginning
to get it into a state approaching
youthful perfection?
Charity Will Be Aided
By Tours.
Well. not every one would. But
Tor sweet charity's sake. through the
old-established Georgetown Children's
Committee, good many do including
the former United States Ambassador
to the Argentine and Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. James
Roosevelt, Miss Frances S. Sortwell
Mrs. Anne Archbold and others,
whose old Georgetown gardens are
among those that will be on view on
April 80.
There are several things that save
the day for the owners of the beauti-
ful gardens, whose charmed paths are
thus opened to the public. For one
thing, people who love gardens usually
are pretty nice, and some of them
form rather satisfactory garden deco
ratlons themselves. In fact, ever
| since the days before the nursery
rhymes were written gardens have
quite generally been graced with fair
maids, in row or otherwise. And
oh. how many one of them, both
before and since the famous Hang
ing Gardens" of the ancient Eastern
capital, has been built by lover to
form a heart setting for
. beloved Woman's beauty!
So, the presence of people being
really vital element in a garden, per-
haps it is one of the great pleasures
OF the year for some of these garden
owners to think that on this day,
when just as each garden owner feels
that his garden is at the very height
OF It's sprlngtime beauty. you and I
and thousands of others who love gar
dens have on these two spring after
Moons the privilege OF enjoying and
making our own these family pleasure
grounds that represent generations of
unstinted care.
Smaller Gardens
Equally Beautiful.
And no one is likely to overlook the
lovely smaller gardens of GEORGETOWN.
In the annual garden tours they have
always been among those most uni
versally enjoyed
When you return from seeing these
gardens on April 80 or May 7, back
OF your shining eyes you will carry
Tor life series of charming pictures
that no subsequent misfortunes or de-
presslons or recesslons can ever erase
And garden lovers are marking down
with red pencils on their calendars that
on next Saturday. April 80, the
Georgetown Garden Pilgrimage is on,
The gardens that will be open on
saturday afternoon, April 80, from
1:30 to o'clock, are as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Woods Bliss.
Dumbarton Oaks, 310l r street; Miss
Belle Sherwin, 1871 Thirty-first street;
Mrs. Dorothy Poland, 1878 Thirty-flrst
street; Mrs. Ernest I. Lewis, 3099 @
street; Mrs. James Roosevelt, 1891 o
street; Mrs. Walter White, l4ll
'Thirty-fourth street; Mrs. Gordon
Dunthorne, 1904 N street Twill also
show Mr.. Dunthornes collection of
rare old flower prints; Miss Locker
and Miss Hedges, 1912 Thirtieth street;
Miss Frances Sortwell, 3410 Volta
place, and Mrs. Anne Archbold, 3509
Reservoir road.
Look for the green and white flags
hying at each Pilgrimage gate. Tea
will be served on April 80 in the
orangery at Dumbarton Oaks at a small
charge.
Tickets, covering all 10 gardens, are
81, and will be on sale at all open
garden gates and at the Mayf1ower
and Willard Hotels, the American
Automobile Association and the Fran
cis Scott Key Bookshoo. 140l Twenty
ninth street.