The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-30

In Offering to furnish the children
OF the city with flower seeds that all
may have gardens of their very own,
] do not wish anyone to hold the idea
that 1t is charity work, for it is not
charity Offering in the generally ac-
cepted meaning of the word.
The children of the poorer people
are not those who most need the
pleasant occupation of gardening. For
they are allowed to live close to ma
ture at all times, from their earliest
infancy their greatest pleasure. as
well as their physical strength is
gathered from their close contact with
mother earth 1t is the children of
the well-to-do, even the rich people
of our American cities. whose little
souls are starving for the privilege of
studying nature at close range, those
whose parents feel that they cannot
allow them to disfigure their fine
grounds with childish efforts at gar
dening. To all these. and to those
who live in blocks where there is no
possible place for them to garden, we
will gladly give little plot all for
your very own garden, where you
may dig to your dear little hearts
content.
Those who have ground of their
own should commence right now and
rake everything all off nice and clean,
then get sDade-or better yet, a
digging fork-and dig it all up deeply,
turn over just a little narrow piece OF
earth at a time so as to break it all
up line, then let it remain untouched
for day if the weather is fine, so it
may dry little. and warm up, then
put little clean ashes on it. say one
half an inch thick all over, then with
garden rake mix it all through the
soft soil evenly. breaking up all the
little hard pieces of dirt you can:
those which will not break, rake off
and leave the ground all smooth and
level.
That is all we need to do to prepare
the ground for this years seeding, for
we are going to plant only the seeds
of flowers easily grown at first: but
when we have learned just how to
ow f"osN which are easily cared for,
We will then learn how to prepare
different combinations of soil for the
requirements of the more particular
and less hardy families of plants, so
that next year we will be able to have
great variety of flowers and sur
prise and delight everyone who comes
to our city. We must make a very
special effort to have the whole city
sweet and bright with flowers during
State Fair Week." To be sure of
such results we must commence right
now.
l have plenty of seeds for all, and
next week will appoint time and
place for you to meet me and learn
how to plant the different seeds. You
will then plant the seeds which 1
will give you in your own gardens,
and after the little plants have pushed
through the ground we will all meet
once each week at the grounds, where
we will grow flowers for the poor sick
people in the hospitals, and learn to
know each tiny plant by name and
just how to care for it.
PhlOx DrummOndii.
Very few of us appreciate the phlox
family as we should. Among the per-
ennials there is nothing more beauti-
full, nothing which gives us such
masses of bloom for so little trouble
All they ask is common garden soil
well drained. Of the annual varieties,
"Drummondii" is very decidedly the
best, and nowhere in the world do they
grow to such perfection as here in the
northwest; they are in fact natives
In couthorn NinDocofo tho oman ,,loooe