The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-02

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Trees. vines and flowers will make
$1,000 house appear more desirable
than a $1,000 house without them.
There is money in the garden boun-
tiful-that is, If rightly handled. But
there is character in the garden beau
| tiful
Often the most common things are
the most beautiful What is so lovely
as the grass? Some one has called it
natures benediction."
Before God made man he created a
garden in which man was to dwell.
Thus it is that man even unto this day
is nearest to the Edenic state when in
garden.
The way to make people love their
country is to render that country beau
tiful There is a greater connection be-
tween horticulture and patriotism than
most people imagine.
1t is said that there are not more
than half a dozen landscape gardeners
worthy the name in this country. With
all the bounties God has packed into
life, how little we get out of It'll
Real poverty is not the lack of mon
ey, but the lack of ideas, of beautiful
and harmonious surroundings, OF
gladness, of congenial companionship
In a word, it is lack of knowing how
to live.
Plant shrubs. They are hardy and II
properly arranged without the appear
ance of crowding can be made quite
picturesque. Many bald and bleak eff
fects can be made coy, attractive and
homelike by the planting of shrubs.
The crusade for parking our great
cities should not stop there. The real
American population is not in the cit
les, but in the villages. There must be
great nation wide movement for
identifying and Frightening our vii
lagos.
AS behind every book is a soul, sc
behind every garden is man or wo-
man-usually it is a woman. Thus
the flowers can be made to express the
wealth of tenderness and beauty in a
soul that finds no utterance in Other
ways
1t has been said that "when God sci
about creation he first planted gar
den" 1t now remains for man tt
change the whole face of nature into
one great garden. That will be Elder
come again, the kingdom of heaven OF
earth.
Every householder can create beauti
full effects in his lawn. 1t matters mo-
what the size of his grounds, he car
still make them picturesque and at
tractive. The smaller they are thu
higher should be his art in making the
most of what he has.
Every one has heard of "the garden
beautiful" and 1.-The garden bountiful,
but is there any reason why the TIVE
should not be combined? Tomatoes
may not be as beautiful as roses, ant
vet there can be artistic arrangement
even Of cucumbers and cabbages
There is an intimate connection be
tween the constructive, optimistic spir
it that builds nations and makes thu
progress of the world and the con
structive artistic taste that embellishe'
and beauties Too many American
men have regarded this higher part O.
human nature as effeminate when II
reality it is the most manly thing IL
the world.
There has long been false distinc
ton between the ornamental and tn
useful. From the standpoint of tn
higher man the ornamental is the use
full Utilitarianism is all right if PLACED
on the proper plane. The query SHOULD
be, What is most useful to the soul, t
the real and permanent self that doe
not live by bread alone, but by low
and beauty
Among shrubs that are suggested TO
the amateur gardener are spiraeas ant
yiburnums OF the spiraeas som'
bloom in one year and others in two
There are several varieties. of which
the Bridal Wreath and Spiraea argut;
are popular. Among the best know
species of the viburnum are the Appa
lachian Tea. Hobbe Bush, High Busl
Cranberry and SNOWFALL
There is no land on the face of tn
earth in which nature has been NOR