Milton B Schweid Tablet

Garden Name: Hebrew Garden

Date: 1970

Artist: unknown


On the wall overlooking Poets’ Corner rock garden is a pillar, rising out of the wall, which had a cast bronze plaque of Milton B Schweid along with an inscription “Bountifulness is as a garden of abundance. And benevolence endureth forever.” Schweid family was active in the Garden and prominent in the local Jewish community. Quote is of unknown provenance. Nothing like it in contemporary translations of Ecclesiasties which was the original attribution. That pillar has a plaque of Theodor He
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