REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GARDENS 155 



Mrs. Harriett R. Foote's Rose Garden. 



June 29 the committee visited the rose garden of Mrs. Harriett 

 R. Foote at Marblehead, Massachusetts. Mrs. Foote is adding 

 constantly to her collection which now contains about a thousand 

 different kinds. Her object is to test the hardiness and desira- 

 bility of many varieties, especially of the more recent introductions, 

 that she may select those most satisfactory for this latitude. 



Her garden presented a brilliant spectacle and her success and 

 increasing reputation in this line furnish another illustration of 

 what woman can do in horticulture. 



Charles S. Eaton's Vegetable Garden. 



On June 29 the committee inspected also the vegetable garden 

 of Charles S. Eaton at Marblehead Neck. This is a private garden 

 growing the various vegetables ordinarily cultivated for home use. 

 It is a plot about ninety feet square, enclosed by a tall wire fence, 

 and in its arrangement and neatness is a model garden of its kind. 

 A tidy and clean vegetable garden is always an attractive sight 

 and in this case rendered additionally so by numerous ornamental 

 plants and climbing roses growing around the borders. 



The home grounds of Mr. Eaton are beautifully and thickly 

 planted with many varieties of hardy shrubs and evergreens, and 

 the lawns especially were the finest the committee had seen this 

 year. The rose garden also is deserving of special notice. 



James Warr, the gardener of the estate, has reason to be proud 

 of the results obtained both in the vegetable garden and in the 

 more ornamental portion of the grounds. 



Dr. Harris Kennedy's Iris Garden at Milton. 



July 7 the committee was invited to visit the collection of Japan- 

 ese irises grown by Dr. Harris Kennedy at Milton. 



In a somewhat boggy piece of ground in open pasture land Dr. 

 Kennedy has got together some fifty varieties of Iris Kaempferi 



