The Imperial press., 1904-09-17
THE FARMERS INSTITUTE

fear of spelling the grass, indeed this grass rather enjoys being abused, for it gives it chance to show how it can rise to meet hardship.
 The piazzas and the steps of the house should be filled with plants, both orna- mental and blossoming.
 The cost of vases and jardinieres deter many from collecting plants, for they do not want to have tomato cans filled with red genaniums, yet how pa thetic is this longing for suggestions for flowers. The careful housewife. by watching her chances, can soon have q collection of suitablee jars and tubs.
 1 take old milk cans, from ten gallons down to the two-gallon, the tops and handles are removed, all painted white and sanded with coarse sand from the wash-made into granite. The syrup cans, lurid with varnish, can be painted and used, while the Japanese tubs and Chinese jars, are always available. The ginger jars, filled with earth and planted with vines-as Wandering Jew, Cypress, and Balloon vines, are swung on bam- boo poles ill sets of six or ten and several rows deep, used on side piazza make a pleasing screen
 In planting the garden of roses-rows should be long, for the flower beds for the blow and harrow are used to culti- vate. Directly around the house is not the best place for the roses, for they do not succeed az we'll there as in the open field, they need plenty of air to escape mildew. During their rugged season they have chance to be out of sight These pictures show some of our roses. The roses in bloom on the fences are simply to screen away the view of the chicken houses, and they give a wealth of bloom. From the way they grow without much care, has come to us the idea of planting these common roses by the thousands along the road back of the ranch and by using wire netting from tree to tree making a continuous fence. We have the roses ready and hope our good man can be enthused enough to take sare of the fences, but if he does not the roses will be planted anyway and be ready for next year. The Shasta Daisy that MT. Burbank gave us few years ago has proven treasure to us, it stands hard treatment and blooms on. The new Shasta Daisy, Alaska, California and Westminster are enormous flowers. In Fresno Garden are measures of several, that, lying ligthly on the rule, were five inches across, when pressed down were five and a-half. There were dozens of them of this size and all have received only garden care.
 The Yellow Garden was great suc- cess this year with the Marigolds, Sunfowers and Goldenglow. The Can mas, of which over 1000 new bulbs were planted last year, have more than paid us, for the new varieties are, many of them, as beautiful as orchids.
 The chrysanthemum beds have had to be sprayed several times with Ivory soap and water to kill the black fleas that infest them. We have about 2.OOO varieties, but will not have any show flowers. 1 have not been able to dis bud them, but feel sure had been there, they would have been left alone, for personally I prefer the medium sized flower.
 Simplicity iu the garden is becoming more pronounced; yet it is to be hoped we will not run that too far.
 When see and read of the struggles of someone in fashionable life, I am thankful I live in California and am free, for l can be simpler in my life without offense to others.
 In the house, ease and comfort should precede elegance, and true courtesy be more than fine furniture. Instead of l.