Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-13
IF You Haze
EOlUers
You Might Just As Well DO the
Thing Well i'm the Matter OF
Flowers. 80 Long As You Are
Going to DO IL AZ All.
AVE Won a Eardenr

AVE you a garden?
" IL you have. dozen un-
4 asked questions are answered.
For II YOU have, of course you cut
nowers for your neighbors when you
know they are going to have some
SORT Of festivity in the way of
guests for dinner or a sewing party
on the veranda. OF course you send
flowers 10 city friends who have no
gardens of their own. OF course you
AXE them 10 the hospital and 10
the home for crippled children and
10 the old peoples retreat OF
course YOU remember the birthdays
of your relations with lovely nose
gays from your garden. o. course
vou don't forget that Grandma Jenk-
ms loves "pineys" and that old Mrs.
Wentworth dotes on lavender and
pink sweet peas and that Aunt
Mary. who is an invalid and can't
leave her room. thinks asters are
the loVelicst thing in the world.
II you have garden, those are
the questions that you have an
swered Now. the thing is. have you
all the paraphernalia needed TO
make the gathering and sending and
carrying Of flowers pleasant and
easvo II does not cost much, this
paraphernalia. and the task is so
much pleasanter if you do have II
that the cost is justified and well
worth while.
To begin with. remember that no
flowers ought 10 be carried any
where unless they are we'll protected
from the air. They should be Gov
cred so that they are almost air
tight To prove this. just try taking
two punches of roses, say, an hours
Journey Wrap one securely in pa
per damp newspaper Will do. Carry
the others with only a protection of
paper 10 keep the prickly stems from
scratching your hands. Then look
az the result at the end of the hour.
II the roses act normally. those that
have been carried uncovered will be
fully open and a little wilted. Those
that have been carried covered Will
be fresh and budded. The hotter
the day the greater the contrast.
too. for the hot air quickly opens
and then willis cut flowers.
Have Them Wrapped.
Therefore. II is of Importance TO
have plenty of paper.
Now. you can buy rolls of waxed
paper-you can get a lot Of il, even
in these days. for ten cents. This
waxed paper is used to put around
The flowers first. and then they are
wrapped in heavier paper. But If
YOU don't want 10 afford the waxed
paper. then remember that sheets of
newspaper, kept neatly cut and con-
tentently near the place where you
YORK over your cur flowers per-
laps on the side porch, perhaps on
i shelf in the pantry-will answer
admirably.
Newspaper. too. may be used for
the outside wrapping, il you wish,
or else you may buy sheets OF strong
but not TOO stiff paper for this pur-
eose. or in the third place you may
save for this purpose wrapping pa
per that comes around parcels de-
livered 10 you.
Now OF course II you can go into
the matter a little more elaborately,
YOU can buy folding pasteboard
boxes. OF a light weight and have
them ready. in different shapes and
sizes. 20 pack your flowers in. These
simplify the packing problem
good deal You may be able 10 save
enough old boxes brought by the
delivery bows 20 your house for this
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maybe you will be. although in this
lean age Il IS only the occasional
bundle that is delivered in a box.
There was a time. you know. when
even a fve-cent spool OF sewing cot
ton came in a box. much wrapped
with tissue paper within and good
brown paper without. But now.
The spool OF sewing cotton costs
more than a nickel. 10 begin with,
and even then maybe we can't get
the number we want Then we
usually conscientiOusly carry il
home. quite unwrapped. in our
handbag. rather than put the shop
out by having IL sent!
Anyway. save whatever light
pasteboard boxes you do have sent
in from the shops.
And have plenty Of twine. You /
can buy q ball. or again you /
can save that which comes TO you |
around parcels. Again, il is less |
than II used TO be. There was a day
when the thrifty housewife saved a
ball OF twine in no time. And most |
OF us were not thrifty enough TO
save It. We rather looked down on
the woman who occupied herself /
with such penny-wise tasks. One
could buy such a big ball Of twine
for FIVE cents in those days, what /
was the use of saving IT?
OF course. il is an added pleasure, /
when you are preparing flowers TO 1
give away, 10 have the right sort of .
scissors 10 clip them with and some .
well-shaped baskets 10 gather them .
in and a becoming garden hat TO .
shade your eyes and convenient /
place 20 work IL is not usually a
difficult matter to open an old cut
ting or card table in a shady corner .
of the garden or porch. There you /
can work unmolested by the activi- /
ties OF the house. Moreover. you
can thus keep the paraphernalia of .
the flower preparation. including
such stray things as ants and /.
spiders. out OF the house.
Have always a big bowl or jug of 4
water while you are preparing flow
ers for giving away. and sprinkle all .
flowers as soon as you bring them
out OF the sun. Sprinkle them again /
when you have them ready 10 wrap.
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