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House & Garden 
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Tea and Antiquity—A Collector’s Combination 
(Continued from page 27) 
Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 
“A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party” 
“No! never such a draught was poured 
Since Hebe served with nectar 
The bright Olympians and their lord 
Her over-kind protector; 
Since Father Noah squeezed the grape 
And took to such behaving, 
As would have shamed our grandsire ape, 
Before the days of shaving; 
No, ne’er was mingled such a draught. 
In palace, hall or arbor 
As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed 
That night in Boston Harbor!” 
And how the old rancor of it is gone 
in these days when our hearts beat in 
unison with the hearts of our British 
cousins. How different are our tea- 
parties to-day, American and Britisher, 
brother and brother! 
Collecting Tea Things 
When we began collecting tea things, 
we did not get everything we wanted! 
One of the tantalizing treasures beyond 
our reach was the poetical effusion of 
Mr. Nahum Tate who lived 1652-1715 
and celebrated the beginning of the 18th 
Century with “Panacea, a poem upon 
tea, with a discourse on its Sov’rain vir¬ 
tues; and directions in the use of it for 
health”. A greedy Maecenas outbid us 
at the book auction where we thought 
only ourselves had discovered or could 
possibly wish to acquire it! With Dr. 
John Coakley Lettson’s “The Natural 
History of the Tea-Tree”, printed In 
London in 1799, we were more fortu¬ 
nate. Likewise Mr. T. Short’s “A Dis¬ 
sertation Upon Tea, Explaining Its Na¬ 
ture and Properties, Showing from 
Philosophical Principles, the Various 
Effects It Has on Different Constitu¬ 
tions ; Also a Discourse on Sage and 
Water”, produced in 1730 was ours for 
the expenditure of ten shillings, a rare 
piece of fortune coming to our door 
through the good graces of a Birming¬ 
ham bookseller’s catalogue. I fancy 
good Queen Anne set the pace to second 
place for sage and water! We are still 
on the lookout for the “Treatise on the 
Inherent Qualities of the Tea-Herb”, by 
“A Gentleman of Cambridge”, whose 
scholarly effusion came from a London 
press in 1750. 
In the course of our adventures at 
home we found that tea collectors were 
more numerous than we would have 
dreamed them to be, perhaps because 
the subject embraced collecting in al¬ 
most every field,—furniture, old silver, 
china and pottery, pewter, brasses, 
books, prints and what not, to say 
nothing of collectors of oriental tea 
things, as, for instance, the lady who 
has seven hundred and thirty-two in¬ 
teresting Japanese teapots, the equally 
interesting lady who has a collection 
consisting of as fine as possible a tea¬ 
cup of every sort of porcelain and ware 
of which tea-cups have been fabricated, 
since the memorable days following the 
presentation of two pounds of tea to 
King Charles II by the East India 
Company. Another collector has gotten 
together a great number of fine Japa¬ 
nese color-prints, the subjects of which 
have to do with the tea ceremony, and 
yet another gentleman “goes in” for the 
Cha-no-yu (tea ceremony) pottery of 
Japan. Probably the most interesting 
collection of tea-caddies in America is 
that owned by Mr. Frederick H. Howell 
of New York Tea-caddies offer to the 
collector an entertaining hobby, for al¬ 
though they are by no means common, 
they are still to be “discovered” in many 
of those nooks that long since have, 
perhaps, given up other collectable 
things. I remember once dwelling with 
enthusiasm on the pleasures of collect¬ 
ing tea-things. 
“I have a little hobby along that line 
myself”, remarked one of the group, 
“tea-spoons”. 
“Don’t you have to be careful?” was 
the question the man next to him could 
not refrain from putting. 
But perhaps our friends are not al¬ 
ways as sympathetic with <he collector’s 
pursuits or as courteously attentive, and 
there is always a time to stop before 
one becomes a bore! 
The House and Garden in England Now 
A GARDEN full of weeds was before 
the war anathema to an Englishman. 
It is not uncommon now to hear him 
speak of “war weeds,” and boast that 
his garden is full of them. Weeds are 
clearly good evidence that a man or 
woman is not employing, for the purpose 
of pleasure, anyone who could be of use 
in helping his or her country. Gardens 
which in pre-war times supplied work 
for five or six gardeners are now under 
the care of some old man. Of course he 
can only do his best to grow some vege¬ 
tables; and it is rather a melancholy 
sight to see gardens, which a few years 
ago were beautifully kept, now almost 
unrecognizable. 
It can scarcely be denied that a man 
who turns into a potato plot a lawn 
which has taken years of careful tend¬ 
ing to perfect, the beauty of which is 
his pride and his joy, means business. 
Sacrifices such as these helped materially 
to raise the 1917 potato crop in England 
by 5,000,000 tons. 
Possibly the “war garden” has re¬ 
vealed to many people the beauty of 
vegetables. They may have discovered 
that the art of gardening does not reach 
its acme in a layout of yellow calceo¬ 
larias and blue lobelias; that, for in¬ 
stance, a straight row of carrots or pars¬ 
ley helps to give emphasis to less or¬ 
dered arrangements and brings form con¬ 
trast into a garden, a quality which some 
gardens sadly need. 
So much for the garden. What of the 
house? In the way of building or altera¬ 
tions “nothing doing” is the order of the 
day. Those who desire to make building 
improvements must wait. Their’s is but 
to dream of what they will do some day 
and to be patient. Not more than $100 
may be spent on building in England 
now, and this only with the consent of 
the authorities. 
