Evening star., 1941-05-11
Lecture Leads to Beoutifying
Horace Mann School Grounds
Mrs. Herbert Greger
Gives Her Views
On Decorating
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

interested WOrkmen were planting
trees and shrubs according to a care
fully-charted plan. Flowers and veg
etables were growing in beds espec-
| tally located with regard to their
needs and the beauty of the whole
scheme. Happy children were leav-
ing morning recess play to see how
their paintings were faring.
This was the scene to which Mrs.
Guy w. Leadbetter of the schools
Garden Committee conducted me at
the newly beautiful Horace Mann
Schools grounds in Wesley Heights
this past week.
All of this had been made possible
because a community, aroused to
the lack of beauty in the grounds
surrounding the school where their
children spent most of their day
time hours, attended en- masse Mrs.
Herbert Greger'S lecture on Flower
Arrangements and the Gardens in
Which They May Be Grown" One
of Americas recognized experts on
flower arrangements, this was her
gift to the school where her chill
dren are pupils.
We found Mrs. Greger busy in
the garden of her home at 4410
Lowell street NV, overlooking the
school, with her little blond, curly
haired 2-year- old daughter Gwen
dolyn beside her.
Flowers Express Religious Urge.
You cannot cheat time in gar
den," this flower enthusiast said, as
she brushed back her wavy hair from
her forehead, her dark blue eyes
sparkling with eagernesS as she
talked of "the joys flowers bring to
the world, no matter how torn it may
be by the sorrows of oppression, hate
and war"
"A garden gives back exactly what
you put into it," she continued, land
flowers can be an expression of our
deepest religious instincts. When
we are working with them, it is
practically impossible for us to
worry over the tense complexities
beSetting the world or ourselves, or
problems we shall have to solve in
the tomorroWs From the serenity
of flowers, their beauty and the feel
of the good earth in which they
grow, inevitably comes a lessening
of strain and the knowledge that
flowers and plants with their spring.
time awakening are the symbols of
life eternal"
Both Mrs. Greger and her hus-
band are Austrian born, but Amer
lean citizens by choice with all the
world to choose FROM" she proudly
declared, land very proud to pass
on to our three children the privi-
leges we share under democratic
institutions"
He is a scientist of international
distinction who established the first
fuel oil research laboratory in the
Far East, and is now engaged in
research problems having to do with
electro-chemistry. fuel technology
and oil conservation.
Learned Flower Art in Japan.
As bride and bridegroom they
went to Northern Japan in the in
terests of his profession and re-
mained nine years. 1t was during
this period that Mrs. Greger, remote
from the distractions of cities and
friends, learned from several noted
Japanese artists. who were their
nearest neighbors, the elements of
the skill she has developed in flower
arrangements.
Since establishing their citizen
ship in the United States and their
residence in Washington where their
two younger children were born,
Mrs. Greger has lectured on flower
arrangements here. in Baltimore.
Philadelphia, New York, Boston and
in many cities in the midwest.
There is no greater mistake" J"
Mrs. Greger said. than to think
that to have beautiful and satisfy
ing flower arrangements one must
have many flowers. A few flowers