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Lakeside Gardens restored■Staff Writerby John Briggsand the Jaenicke Japanese gardens (now disheveled and untended) at Swinney Park.“I hate to say it but the people The formal sunken gardens, backedcomplaining helped.” Larry Walter, by the pergolas (the columnedlongtime superintendent of trellises) to the north, reflect thehorticulture for the city parks, looked European sensibility of the German-out from the shaded bench at the bred Jaenicke, who placed stepsLakeside Rose Garden and shook his downward at each comer, and anhead. “They complained about the entrance-way down to the reflectingpergolas, the trash in the lily pool, the. pools between blue spruce treesweeds....” (though Walter speculates the presentSix years ago, Walter said, the rose trees might not have been plantedgarden was “the pits. I was ashamed until the mid-1940s).of them. I was ashamed to be in charge The flowerbeds, dense withannualsof them. I actually told people not to now at their most colorful, face theircome.” mirror image across the reflectingThat’s no longer the case. And the pools, and the narrow pools in turngardeners who six years ago found it lead to 'the lily pool, planted oncehard to come to work now look with again with common water lilies andpride at their work, and the gardens lotus.may be as pretty and well-tended as at William Henderson, who is retiredany time in their 75-year history. and lives on nearby Crescent Avenue,They emerged from a plan drawn comes nearly every day to the park, up in 1917 by fabled Fort Wayne Park “It looks a lot better,” he said, “it’s Superintendent Adolph Jaenicke (who had an uplift.” It was not so nice a few
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Fort Wayne Frost Illustrated
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 29, 1998
Page 22
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