The Story of Our Cultural Gardens- No.2

He (Leo Weidenthal) planned and hoped and worked unil the garden finally emerged as a shrine also known as the English Cultural Garden. and now sponsored by the Daughters of the British Empire.

Here are planted roses from Juliet's tomb in Verona, sycamore maples from Macbeth's Birnam Wood, and a mulberry tree that grew from a slip brought from the tree Shakespeare himself planted in Stratford.

Celebrities who have had a hand in the setting out of trees in the garden include E. H. Southern and Julia Marlowe, Robert B. Mantell, William Faversham, Daniel Frohman, Davis Belasco, William Bulter Yeats, Edwin Markham, Mrs. Joyce Kilmer, Stephan Leacock, Effie Ellsler, Jane Cowl, Sarah Barnhardt, Sir Robert Tree, and Rabindranath Tagore.