The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-30
GARDENING FOR OTHERS.
Pleasure In Plants and Flowers, Although
for Strangers.

Pleasure in Plants and Flowers, Although
for Strangers.
The season of preparation for midsum-
mer floral delights is at hand, and all lovers
of flowers are consulting catalogues and
making mental calculations for sowing and
planting. writes Helen NJ. North in Harper's
Bazaar.
In hundreds of happy homes mother and
daughter may plant beautiful shrubs and
vines with reasonably good prospect of
seeing them come to perfection in the fol-
lowing years. They own their homes as
much as any of US can be said to own any
thing IN this country of volatile possessions.
But there are other hundreds of equally
as happy homes occupied. by ladies who
read this paper where there IS no assurance
abiding place. 1--WE are nothing but ami
mails ourselves" said one bright girl. ''No
perennials or century plants for u.s."
Fewer uncertainties attach to the rented
home than its occupants sometimes imagine.
The tickle goddess does not inquire too
whom she would withhold her favors.
Many a woman says: "Why take time and
thought to beautify home that may pass
from onr hands in another twelvemonth?
This choice rose bush will not, of certain
ty bloom for me this year. I shall reap no
Ocu0uU xIO1u b416 kE6CO1ul W16udIJd WIG OI
these lily bulbs. The chances are decidedly
against my sharing the pleasure of Watching
this other lovely shrub come to perfection.
This ivy will climb over some other door
way than my own next year, perhaps" And
so the shrub or vine loses it's chance.
not hesitate should her next neighbor beg
the loan of household convenience. In
any of the emergencies of life-in accident,
sickness, or death-she would be the en-
b. diment of sympathy and tender minis
tration. She is doubtless known through
out the community for her loving kindness.
Let her consider for moment the possible
consequences of planting the brown bare
shrub which may one day become -four
fishing rose tree.
To this rented home some day comes a
poor family whose lot permits few of the
mothers window are aconstant benediction
for which they are daily grateful. Many q
weary invalid learns to bless the hand that
planted the rose-tree, and reads lessons of
. aith and hope from the pure depths of the
blossom. Little children gather its flowers
7. with delight. The pleasant living room is
made fragrant; the guest room breathes a
sweet welcome to the weary traveller; the
l breakfast table is fairer for the father,
mother, brothers, and sisters by reason of
the dainty rose offering beside each plate.
Years 90 ON and the little brown shrub
/ spreading tree. The house, too, has come
{, to the dignity of q real home, no longer a
rented house. Bridal roses are plucked
/ from the generous branches of the
/ pretty tree. Wreaths for the cas-
j kets of the dead are also woven
from its treasures. The shrub has fulfilled
Il its happy mission and blessed scores of hui
man beings with its blooms, as fresh each
season as if blooming for the first June of
&its life.
The vine too becomes a grateful shade for
Fa sunny porch; the apple or cherry. sprout
lives to delight each new conner in the gar
Iden where it was planted. Instead of CIV
ling single gift to the sick or needy. the
mother or daughter who planted in hope
Frightened more lives, if only for little
spaoe, than she ever dreamed of, and with
very little trouble or care to herself.