Wild flowers in St. John's Forest Garden July 1954

Title:: Wild flowers in St. John's Forest Garden July 1954
Description:: Wild flowers in St. John's Forest Garden July 1954. The leaves in the left foreground are of wild sunflowers (self-planted) and the many white blossoms are fleabane. Not showing are chicory and tall cinquefoil. Earlier there had been violets, lilies of the valley and Jack in the pulpit. Later there were thistles and goldenrod. Do not these wild flowers justify our no longer using the lawn mower?
Photographer:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Name on Item:: Photo by Rev. Wolcott Cutler
Date:: July 1954
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Episcopal churches
Gardens
Trees
Wildflowers
St. John's Church (Charlestown, Boston, Mass.)
Places:: Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Saint Johns Episcopal Church
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: Photographed by Wolcott Cutler: #282:2. William Sloane Kennedy in "In Portia's Gardens" has written: The profanation and ruin of grass is in the too free use of the scythe or lawn-mower. I always try to keep a bit of unmown grass, a piece of springing wildery that no blade of steel may touch. I don't care how thick & sere & tangled it is: it will take care of itself; &in the spring you will see the green, slowly but surely, out-tingeing the brown, until it waves triumphant over the last year's stems.".. "a miracle of beauty with its tangle of wild strawberries and crumpled-dainty ferns & its buttercups.".. "where we may admire the irridescence of the early dew."
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Reverend Wolcott Cutler
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-352-F5