The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-19
Garden Club Here Will Be Hostess
To Annual Pilgrimage On March Il

A treat awaits Pilgrimage visitors
In Red Springs where April IL will
be observed as pilgrimage day The
RED Springs Garden club and Flora
Macdonald college have joined in
sponsoring the tour with Mrs. Lar
tram Robson and DR.. C. G. Vardell
as chairmen. The tour will be free
of charge, will wend it's way through
the famous gradens of Flora Mac
donald college, known far and wide
for its native planting.
Other delightful features of the
day in Red Springs will be a show
ing of thirtv-five paintings by ou.-
standing artists, from the collection
of ]. Kennedy Todd's private gal
lery, one of the finest in North Caro-.
lima, and a talk by Alexander Sprunt
of the National Audubon Society n
the morning of April II, at II o'clock,
who will speak on 1.-The Birds and ~,
Gar len" DR.. Vardell will also make
a short talk on the adaptation of
wild plants in the garden and flowers
will be displayed by prominent nur-
seryme-. of the Piedmont section,
including a display of orchids by
JuGge Way Of Pinehurst.
To cap the climax, the Red Springs
Garden club will sponsor a flower
show the day Of the festival and
luncheon will be served in the college
dining hail at l p. m. headquarters
will be the Administration Building
of the college with DR.. Stump and
members of his biology class in
charge.
Rocky Mount will devote two days
to it's tour of ancestral homes and
gardens, April IL and IL with Mrs.
A. P. Thorpe as chairman for the
Rocky Mount Garden club.
Informal gardens will be exhibited
in Wades5oro April 9 and 10 under
direction of the Wadesboro Garden
club with Mrs. r. T. S. Little as
chairman. Gardens open to the pub
lie will be those of Mrs. T. P. Cara.
way, Mrs. T. c. Coke, Mrs. H. H.
Harrison, Mrs. J. D. Horne, Mrs. F.
M. Little, Mrs. George w. Little,
Mrs. H. W. Little, Mrs. Bryan Moore,
Mrs. ]. C. Redfern and Mrs. F..
Rheinstein.
The Pilgrimage will arrive in Con-
cord on the following two days, April
10 and II where many large formal
and informal gardens and an old
English garden will be shown.
The complete Statewide Pilgrim
age schedule is as follows: Whining
ton, March 27-2S; Greenville, March
27-2S; New Bern, April 2-3; Wades.
boro, April $40; Hillsboro, April 10;
Concord, April 1o-11; Winston-Sa-
lem, April 10-11; Tarboro, April II;
Red Springs, April IL; Bath, April
IL; Rocky Mount, April 11-12; G. =
tonia, April 11-12; Durham, April 12-
10; Chapel Hill, April 1918; Halifax,
Enfield and Roanoke Rapids, April
Is and 16; Warrenton, April 1917;
Henderson, April 1918; Oxford,
April IT'S; High Point, April 49,
10; Greensboro, April 1919; Mebane
April %; Reidsville and Tryon, April
% and "a; Asheville, April "a and
25; Cove Grove and Belvidere
plantations, 6 miles from Hartford,
April 5; and Scotch Hall, BERTHE
County, IS miles from Windsor,
April 4 and s..
The vast assignment of directing
the Statewide Garden Pilgrimage is
the task of Mrs. James H. Brodie of
Henderson, who is serving as State
Pilgrimage chairman. Mrs. J.. Blu
rem Sudbury, of Wilmington is presi-
dent of the Garden club of North
Carolina, the pilgrimage sponsor,
which has the assistance Of the
State Department of Conservation
and Development.