Show a 4 I Woman Oman Has as Made Life Path o of Roses I P Pt t I n Mrs Harriet Foote knows the intimate te secrets ts of her ner flower By VIRGINIA SWAIN NEA S Service Writer Writ r. r MARBLEHEAD D Mass Oct 1 Eight thousand rose bushes and j 1 not one rose for sale Mrs Irs Harriett 1 Foote of ot the little village of Devereaux by thirty years of love and labor has brought the world the world to her garden gate grate and sent it away empty h empty Whoever visits this most famous of f American rose gardens must be satisfied to feast on beauty without despoiling it For Mrs Footes Foote's garden garden gar gar- den is her laboratory and her play play- ground But there is nothing in it for sale In her quaint New Now England house surrounded by old old- maple and pewter pewter pew pew- i ter that New York collectors would i cry for Harriett Foote lives in simple simple sim sim- i Jle widowed retirement plying her white magic entertaining old Smith I college friends letting the world go by I It does not go by without stopping stopping stopping stop stop- ping however Gleaming white yachts from the Marblehead clubs limousines from Boston and NewYork New NewY NewYork Y York every variety of road vehicle brings pilgrims to the celebrated garden GARDEN GARbEN FOR THE J FORDS OR S In the stream last summer mummer was Mrs lire Henry Ford who vho wished to show her guests Mr r. r and Mrs Thomas Edison the tho wonders of th the garden The result of this visit was that Mrs Foote was commissioned to tolay tolay lay layout out a mammoth rose garden of bushes on the Ford estate at Dearborn Mich 1 Beginning the work VOIk last October she personally selected each bush and supervised tho the planting Her lIer seclusion gave way to a strenuous regime of weekly trips to Dearborn throughout the spring and summer Since June Mrs Footes Foote's ros roses s have decked the theFord theFord theFord Ford dinner table at Dearborn nightly The Marblehead garden Is a re- re earch arch laboratory containing g g 2000 of roses roses There Th re is at least me ne bush from every country countr in the world where roses grow grow Killarney Killarney roses from Ireland and English teas bloom beside the blue roses of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and the black r roses ses of France I Perhaps the strangest rose in the garden is the green rose of China ChUm It Is called Veri de 1 Flora lora and Its Hs blossom is the same shade of green greenas as the stem and leaves TWENTY YEARS OLD Beyond the winding paths through rose thickets and trellised climbers there is a patch of small smaIl maiden bushes bushes' where here n new w roses are ale planted for a trial of their strength and beauty before being initiated into the inner circle of ut the garden The rose garden at Devereaux was laid out twenty years ago It covers three acres and is laced lace with paths and dotted With bowers Mrs Foote knows the nal name hams l and position of every bush in the garden But no metal tags HiSs are allowed They bruise the the ros rose lady believes beHoves Instead she has a great chart In her study on which each bush is marked with name and age Greek p pantheism has taK taken n a strong hold this little on gray gray- haired paired New England tand wom woman n. n The widow of an Episcopal al rector she clings to orthodox Christianity witha with a n shudder at the views of Lu Luther ther Burbank and other plant J. J ROSE HOSE PERS PERSONALITIES ES And yet yet every every rose bush ush is an art individual to me she S says YS It has If if not a soul soul soul-at at least a. a breath of ot deity I believe my roses know know and love me and feel hurt if I am too long away from themI them I t lay layout out gar gardens ens for people when they ask me to I always welcome visitors to my own g garden But Im I'm not after money The only nh valid vaUd reason for for- growing for growing roses Is a alove love for them th that t wont won't let you stop atop stopA A rose garden is a r retreat treat from all the ugliness s and acid pain of of this world Henry Ford wanted a a secret garden a retreat to to be st stumbled upon accidentally in fn his great estate That's why I l laid id out the g garden with only one entrance I No o one would suspect that back backof backof backof of a certain hedge a wilderness of roses was in bloom Back of that hedge rose personalities are waiting to comfort the world I Th ts t's my idea of a garden |