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Thursday, June 7, 1973 THE NORTHSIDE SUN, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Section Two, Page Five 5 Gardening By MRS. HERMAN L. McKENZIE LaRosette Garden Club The flower lover who visits Colonial Williamsburg sooner or later notices the arrangements of fresh flowers in the rooms of the Governor's Palace, the George Wythe house, and the Brush-Evard house. Many of the arrangements, especially in the parlors, are elaborate displays featuring tulips, much in the manner of Old Dutch paintings. By contrast, in upstairs bedrooms simple floral creations might be used, such as a vase of pansies.

In the family living area, one might find a great brass bowl filled with graceful dogwood branches. Inevitably one asks, "Who does these flower arrangements?" The answer is Edna Pennell, flower supervisor for Colonial Williamsburg, and her three assistants, two full-time and one part-time. On the last day of my visit to Williamsburg, I was privileged as a gardening columnist to meet and interview Miss Pennell. When I arrived, early on a Monday morning, things were a bit hectic. Not only was it Monday, and the beginning of Easter Week, a holiday in all Virginia schools and a signal for families to descend en masse upon Williamsburg much a as their ancestors must have done in the April "Publick Times" 200 years ago.

But also the Prime Minister of Italy was coming to Williamsburg and to all of Miss Pennell's regular Monday duties were added the arranging of fresh flowers for the Allen-Byrd house, where visiting dignitaries stay, and for the formal rooms of Carter's Grove plantation, where the evening's banquet was to be held. I thoroughly enjoyed my brief waiting period, in Miss Pennell's brick office behind the house, next to the Palace. I perused Miss Pennell's collection of house plants, gardening books and flower containers, most of them of blue and white delft, sniffing the mingled fragrances of a wood fire and the bowl of ripe apples I recognized from an earlier visit to the Palace kitchen. Miss Pennell told me that she acquired the job of flower supervisor rather by accident. A native of Pennsylvania, she had studied horticulture at Temple University and had taught flower arranging.

She had visited Colonial Williamsburg several times, and when Mrs. Louise Fisher retired 15 years ago, friends recommended her for the job. One reason she took the job, Edna Pennell continued, was that she was distressed at the extreme lengths to which modern flower arranging had gone, and welcomed the opportunity to work with designs structured solely to suit locations within a particular home. My next question concerned daffodils. In theory all plants grown in the Historic Area must be those known to have been grown in 18th century Virginia.

But I thought I'd recognized my old friends Actea and Cheerfulness, in the Palace garden, and Miss Pennell assured me I was right. She explained that many of the species that graced the gardens of long ago were simply not now available. "So," she continued, choose modern hybrids most like the old garden species. We would never, for instance, plant a pink daffodil or a reverse bicolor." One regret was that I could not see the cutting gardens, which were two miles away. Here the gardening staff plants each season to the specification of the flower arranging staff.

A thousand new tulip bulbs, for instance, are planted each year. "But," Miss Pennell commented, "I really find the smaller second-year blooms quite good for arrangements." It is this eye for the graceful and the appropriate which makes Miss Pennell's arrangements such a lovely and integral part of the historic settings they are designed to grace. Mrs. Harlon Ernest Rucker Daley-Rucker in double ring Mr. and Mrs.

James D. Daley announce the marriage of their daughter, Pamela Gail, to Harlon Ernest Rucker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Ellis Rucker of Lucedale, Miss. Miss Daley is the granddaughter of Mrs.

D. C. Daley and the late Mr. Daley and of Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Speights of Bassfield, Miss. Miss Daley attended Callaaway High School and was graduated from the Education Center. She is presently employed with CoastalExploration. The wedding took place in vows pledged ceremony the pasonage of the Marion United Methodist Church in Merdian, Miss. The couple will make their home in Meridian where the groom is associated with Coastal Exploration.

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Cohostesses were Evelyn Roell and Mattie Lou Burge. The collect was read by Mrs. John Head. Mrs. Erwin C.

Ward was presented as a new member of Mrs. N. G. Augustus, president and was seconded by Mrs. Bennett Smith.

The president was presented a piece of silver. Guests were Mrs. David Jones, Mrs. Gina Keith Smith, Mrs. Gladys Blye, Mrs.

Chester Scott, Mrs. J. A. Shanks. Members present included Mrs.

N. G. Augustus Mrs. E. T.

Burge, Mrs. R. W. Calhoun, Mrs. Charles E.

Daniels, Mrs. John W. Head, Mrs. C. R.

Hewitt, Miss Alice Hincheliff, Mrs. James P. Holloway, Mrs. David Keith, Miss Ruth O'Leary, Mrs. Herbert Robertson, Mrs.

LeRoy Roell, Mrs. Ray Schmidt, Mrs. Bennett Smith, Mrs. J. H.

Stewart Mrs. R. T. Thomsen, Mrs. Larry L.

Taylor, Miss Eleanor O'Leary and Mrs. Erwin C. Ward. Published Every Thursday Read 7 Days a Week Care JACKSON MALI Guests at the June 1 luncheon honoring Waas, Susi Callaway senior Cindy Spaugh, (seated row, Lucia foreground) given by her mother, Mrs. John Nancy Spaugh (seated left) were, from left: Back Brundege.

row, Anne Brooks, Regina Kendrick, Ruthie Buffet luncheon honors Cindy Spaugh, C'way senior Cindy Spaugh, a Callaway senior, was honored Friday, June 1, with a buffet luncheon given by her mother, Mrs. John M. Spaugh, in their home at 761 Woodhill Rd. The table was adorned with a gay, multi colored patchwork runner and yellow and white gingham napkins, a design represented in the runner. The centerpiece was an arrangement of yellow and white Shasta daisies and miniature daisies held in a wicker basket and tied with a turquoise velvet ribbon.

The place cards were decorated with fresh miniature daisies matching those in the centerpiece. Miss Spaugh was attired in a long turquoise, yellow and State Library to new location The Mississippi State Library (the state law library), will move from its present location in the New Capitol building to the Carroll Gartin Justice Building on High Street. The library will be closed June 6, and will re-open June 18, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. YMCA tells SCUBA classes The downtown YMCA announces that it is offering beginning SCUBA classes.

The six week course will begin June 19. Classes will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 9 p.m. This course is open to males and females ages 15 and up. Students must furnish masks, fins and snorkles. Tanks, regulators and air will be furnished by the Y.

Fur further information, contact Terry Trimble, Physical Director at the downtown phone 948-3090. Sign of the good neighbor. The American Red Cross Luncheon guests white dress featuring white eyelet embroidery puffed sleeves with a turquoise ribbon sash. The tiny yellow roses in her dress were accented with a corsage of yellow sweetheart roses and white baby's breath. The guests received favors of paper tole pictures framed with yellow drapery rings.

The little pictures carried out the turquoise and yellow color scheme, the background being the same material as the napkins. They were topped with turquoise baby ribbon matching the centerpiece. The honoree made the favors along with the easels which held them. Miss Spaugh is to tour Europe this summer as a graduating gift from her parents. Guests attending were Anne Brooks, Judy Brundege, Linda Cox, Karen Dukes, Kathy Jones, Lucia Jones, Regina Kendrick, Nancy Mitchell, Susi Pedrick, Ellen Thomas, Ruthie Waas and Robin Whatley.

HOME EC WORKSHOPS COLUMBUS, Miss. The home economics department at Mississippi State College for Women will host five workshops during its 1973 summer graduate sessions with special visiting consultant Dr. Mark Clark Hull, noted authority in undergraduate curriculum design for career education in home economics. First session courses include Occupational Education, June 5-22, and Clothing and Textiles, June 25 July 11. Second session courses are Research Design, Curriculum in Home Economics and Child Development, all July 13 Aug.

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Ratliff to speak at St. Luke's Mrs. Lowery Ratliff, author of the new book "Help Jesus, Are You A Mother," will be the guest speaker for the United Methodist Women's general meeting of St. Luke's Methodist Church. The covered dish meeting will be held in the Fellowship Hall at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 12. All members of the church have a special invitation to come and bring a friend. Mrs. Ratliff, member of the staff of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church, home maker and mother of two children, wrote her book with the hope that it will be helpful to mothers in their day-to-day experiences with their children. For further information, call Mrs.

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