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By Dorothy Davis
The Rappahannock Garden Club held its regular May meeting on Wednesday the 16th. About thirty members and guests met at “Rosewood,” home of Mrs. Charles H. Estes, at twelve noon for a buffet lunch.
Following the luncheori, the group made a Friendship Tour of the gardens of five club members, including those of Mrs. Estes, Mrs. W. C. Hall, Mrs. Thomas Rees, Mrs. S. E. Hening and Mrs. W. R. Williamson.
The garden om Mrs. Estes is a lovely formal arrangement of perennial beds edged with old English boxwood( rooted by the owners), and surrounded by borders of flowering shrubs. The visitors, with resolves to improve their own gardens, departed for the home of Mrs. W. C. Hall.
The English boxwood at Rose Hill is over 150 years old and some of the individual specimens are among the finest and largest in’ this country. The grounds are much older than the present house and great care has been taken in maintaining the original lindscape design and preserving the ancient plant material and 27 varieties of trees. Reescroft, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rees,- fondly known as “the academy” and the “Rabbit? Gum,” by many students who attended school there years ago, was visited next,
'Extensive building and remodeling and building has changed the interior and exterior of the residence and roses, evergreens and perennials have changed the newly terraced hill into a gorden show place surrounded by mountains.
Many new shades and varieties of iris were in bloom with roses showing color and great promise. It was hard to believe that plant
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