The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-19
Old F[oWers
Grown AboUe
Broadwdy
Couple Reycl in Real
Old Fashioned Garden
Atop Bank Building.

York to live n yet WISn'u WV"
~ all your heart to go back to 'he
country. What would you do 10
ease this vain longing? or wouln you
meekly give In to your destiny I'M oo
nothing? 1t Is not enough 10 say '"ere
is no solution to this problem Tot one
| couple at least f-vc proved mat 'nelo
il one, anc despite the fact mat tncS
live in one Of New Hurks busiest uls-
| tricts thcy have brought enough or
the country along to dclude themselves
| sometimes into believing that o!d i'oo-
bin is still just Il few yards away
paving the straw in his stable. wait
ing to serve them.
These ingenious people arc Mr.. and
| Mrs. George crawford, who live IN
! the garnet rooms Of the old Dime
| Savings Bank Building on Greeley
! Square. Mr.. Crawford is the super
intendent of the building, though al
| his wife says with increased Eentle-
| ness in her voice, There ISN'T so much
for him to do now. You see, anyway,
| George IL 10 years old" and she adds
\ rather proudly, I'm 70 myself. even
II | do all my own work and tend to
my flowers, and I'm just as spry a.
I was ten years ago"
1t is her bound,ess energy which has
| made Mrs. Crawford unwilling to
| forego all semblanCe to her country
home. The irregular roof OF the old
| building which looks down on two
| crowded thoroughfares she has con-
verted into a rca. old fashioned country
| flower garden. with the kind OF blos-
| annna thnt yntt ifgn1 IN 900 In vnlIH
mothers front yard before you came
to New York and forgot that flowers
| could grow outside OF florists shops
zinnias (old maids she calls them).
m~arigo,ds. %petunias, geraniums. ele-
plants ears, maiden hair ferns. roses
and ever a morning glory vine clam
boring up an iron support. Dust
covered they are and somewhat smoky.
but their fragrance is unimpaircd and
they bring a breath Of the country.
Besides the plant ~assemblage on the
roof every window has its share.
~ love EN- so. you see" Mrs. Craw-
ford explains. They aren't much now.
nothing TO what they were. They're
sort Of scraggy. though | got some
that are maEn. flccnt, II l do say It
| III Fftls A's NllAll- iaAAN : Fi''t 40 "id
| want. Makes You feel so homelike,
having flowers around. Then some
time. maybe. Wei go back to the
country, and when ! put EN- out and
give 'em room. my, but they'll just
grow beautifully.
Here are some OF tho very finest
peach saplIngs now. | just couldn't
bear 10 throw the seeds away. And
see how they're growing. They're a
year old, and You know peach trees
that are growing outdoors bloom and
bear in three years. I'll be delighted
10 give some OF them away II | knew
anybody who'd take care of them.
They'll never have peaches on EN- I'D
here. Were So crowded"
Every flower has It's story. every
story its rcmarkabl" setting or scnti-
mcnt. This cactus here. 2 don't look
Ike much now. but s, cone from the
South, whore they ;,lt me the plants
grow To- be twelve to fifteen feet high.
My sister lives down there and she
had one. Well, There come a terrible
storm and II knocked off q b. piece
OF the cactus. My sister Was coming
on TO New York and She jus; put a
piece IN her trunk somebody might
want it-and 7 got, mold oc i and stuck
II in that can, Iu soc It's getting
along,
THAT little vine virginia CrccperD
Is what grows on all tho big buildings.
The lawyer who brought us here gave
me that little piece"
one plant came from Japan. another
had n roundabout; trip from a foreign
country.
1t was an old question. How do
you have such good luck in making
them grow
Mrs. Crawford slapped her hands
together and laughed. Il q Mt know.
All l know Is ! take care Of them as
II they We're children" Hor own chill
dren are grown ana heads Of families
Of their own. Guests on the higher
floors Of the hotel opposite can see
every morning the alert Ggarc II the
old woman stirring on the roof water-
ing AMI tend NJ hcr flowers.
Even the sofa pillows show evidence
of the back to nature sentiment
They are made of corn slu,ks. nice
s~tuiiing they make f.u when thev'ra
covered with some h.uI Of pretty Goth
Pillows make a room $50 cheerful. and
when my friends como here and wont
10 sit out ON the ruu' and look an the
fine view | have these So thoy von,t
ct their dresses ~N.,rI. | cook the
corn for dinner aul then lust dry
tn" shuchs for the pillows
Th" garden is not the only hing by