The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-23
FAumERSs WIVES.

Ladies should cultivate flowers as an in
vigorating and healthful exercise, both for
the health Of themselves and also for their
children.
The desire to make ones home attractive
and pleasant is prominent in the mind OF
every right thinking person, not merely for
his or her own enjoyment, but more for the
sake of their children.
Long before boy or girl is able TO do
farm work they could be helping their IA
ther or mother in the kitchen or flower gar
der.
As a general thing, when you ask farm
ers wife why size don't have nice flower
garden, the answer is invariably, 81 have no
time" Now the old adage is, "where there's
will there's a way" and every woman
could spare say two hours day. Make a
start and you will find by the end Of three
months that your labor has not been in vain.
What is more delightful when lady friend
calls on you, you invite her to see your flow
er garden, and see how much pleasanler the
time passes away.
A beautiful garden tastefully laid out, and
well kept, is a certain evidence of taste, re-
iinemeut and culture.
1t makes a lowly cottage attractive and
lends charm TO the stateliest palace.
An English writer lately visiting our
country, writes:
l can conceive of nothing more dreory
than to live in the country and have no
garden. To have no garden is to take the
poetry and nearly all the charms away
from country life. To have garden is to
have many friends continually near.
have little faith in American women
becoming farmers-holding the plough
welding the sra lie or shovel, but do know
that all the rest of the work can be accom-
plished by women, if they have a love fol
the beautiful.
There lies the trouble few of our chill
dren are taught to garden. If they possess
a natural taste for the persut, sometimes it
is gratfied, but not always.
The first thing necessary after well pre-
pairing the soil, is to purchase garden tools
a small set, comprising rake and hoe on
one handle, trowel ond a spade are very
essential. With their aid much light work
can be accomplished.
A watering Pot with large nozzle, and
fine sprinkler is also required. With these
implements every woman can be her own
gardener, and not only raise all the flower:
she may require, but also contribute large
share of the vegetables that are always well
coined at the table during both winter and
summer.
Every morning dig one or two beds, ac
cording to size, and continue the work until
all are cleared away. Then commence
again, and this prevents the soil from be-
coming baked, and lets the air and moisture
enter the earth and nourish the tender
roots.
: The next is the selection Of seeds, which
is very important matter, and on the wis
dom of the choice success or failure may de
pend.
Those who have had little experience
should invest cautiously and in the more
hardy and populous kind, such as asters
balsams, stock, petunias, zinnias, ETC., with
few of the more tender kind, just for trial
A half dozen of Towering plants well cult
waited will give pleasure, when hundred
neglected or lily cultivated ones will be
source of pain.
Plant with care and kill all the weeds
and you will not regret the small invest
ment required to commence and continue
a garden, but will become more and more
enumored with the occupation, and will
yearly increase your stock and your peas
Ninneapslis Tribune.