St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-30
COME INTO THE GARDEN,
Tired and Discouraged Housewife,
and Take Counsel of Sweet Nat

Tired and Discouraged Housewife,
and Take Counsel of Sweet Nat
ure.
Special Letter to the Globe
FOUNTAIN, Minn., July 23.-Although
the rains have been frequent, and some
times falling fast and hard, until
one might imagine the flood gates of
/, Heaven were open, yet no especial dam
age has been done the growing crops.
Ii the rank-grOwing grain was laid low
/ by the hard beating rains, it again and
| again arises into an upright position
until the fields present an even appear
ance as one looks over them, and the
country is grand in its robes of green
just now.
:, Are yon troubled with the "blues?''
Look out over this earth. What if the
sun is not in view and the clouds are
/ gathering, dark and threatening, our
good Father still keeps ward over US.
And He never fails or forgets; we have
His promise; let us trust in His word, of
d.'seed, time and harvest shall never
fail"
SUCH WEATHER
has depressing effect upon many peo-
pie, and L have been out among the
flowers, as often do when the nervous
system is restless and must be brought
into subsection, looked for chintz bugs
among the japanese pinkS," where
they played such havoc last summer
and l found not trace of them, but
| did find the rains and great heat
had made many very spindling plants,
tall and slender, needing props to keep
them in their proper place, and so a
change of working hour before me.
And the late spring is shown by Di-
anthus BarbatuS, the old ''Sweet Will
lam" of our grandmOtherS, which is
now in full bloom at this date of this
plant, is
ALWAYS A FAVORITE
with all lovers of flowers, being fine
blooming perennial of hardy constitu-
ton and very good behaved even when
it is sadly neglected, and is one of the
best of plants for shrubbery. 1t
is a pleasant surprise to come
suddenly upon one of these plants
ering shrubs in the garden of friend.
The eminent DR.. Rice, of Wisconsin.
once told me, when going through his
extensive variety of shrubs, where
he had planted all colors and every
shade of color of this plant. ''that
Shrubbery was the place for
Sweet Williams" And so it is if
one has wide grounds and can get all
varieties of shrubs and all the hardest
roses to plant with them, and there
must be no regularity, just here and
there, so that you come suddenly upon
them as you follow winding pathway
among the bushes in a little open space.
The varieties of HemerocaliS are now
coming into bloom, and to some
NERVOUS PEOPLE,
fall seems to follow these very closely
and they dread to see the lily-Shaped
flowers open out into the sunshine. And
yet they make a goodly show i'll the
flower garden, like some people we meet,
all show and nothing more! There is the
campanula pyramidalis, with its Ian
guage, gratitude" and the hot house
asclepias. with it's ''cure for the heart
ache" The miserable have no medi-
cine but hope, and the late, iris, 81
have message for you" And here is
this single red pink, ''a token of all the
heart can keep"
''Of holy love, in its fountain deep"
Ah, me! | am running away, in trying
to coax the woman hermit out of her
corner into my flower garden and get
her interested in new work among the
beauties Of bur good Fathers creation
for the delectation of us poor mOrtals.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.